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Definition of the day : « direful »
- adj fearful; horrible
- To and fro, to and fro, the dying man continued his direful walk.
- Extract from : « A Son of Hagar » by Sir Hall Caine
- As if all these direful outrages were not the natural results of slavery!
- Extract from : « The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass » by Frederick Douglass
- That direful mishap was at the bottom of his temporary recluseness.
- Extract from : « Moby Dick; or The Whale » by Herman Melville
- She felt instinctively that the name was one of direful omen to herself.
- Extract from : « The Golden Dog » by William Kirby
- I left him, with a strong foreboding that he would work me some direful mischief.
- Extract from : « Rattlin the Reefer » by Edward Howard
- Wafted on the wind followed that direful "Whoop-ah-ho-o-oh!"
- Extract from : « The Conquest » by Eva Emery Dye
- Added to his other disappointments, a direful change had taken place at camp.
- Extract from : « The Search » by Grace Livingston Hill
- In their direful extremity they would fain "flee from the presence of God."
- Extract from : « The Spirit of God As Fire » by D. Mortimore
- And what of the patient for whom the direful prognosis was intended?
- Extract from : « Mind and Body » by William Walker Atkinson
- Bodies of the slain lay heaped about the ditch, sad and direful proofs of the fearful struggle on that well-remembered night.
- Extract from : « The Adventures of Captain John Patterson with Notices of The Officers &c. of the 50th or Queen's Own Regiment from 1807 to 1821 » by John Patterson