Adjective : direful forecasts. From Dictionary.com.
There floats the direful cause 'longside them now!. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Elocutionist] Reference
That direful fate the race of moon men have experienced. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
The first direful possibility is in the choice of material. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Tell to Children] Reference
These direful effects of slavery demand your most serious attention. From Wordnik.com. [Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872] Reference
Evidently, direful things might ensue from a meeting between Madeline. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
Oft and anon he goes to the joyous building, bent on direful mischief. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem] Reference
With the supposed direful consequences that would follow the triumph of. From Wordnik.com. [Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative] Reference
"Now who is making direful suggestions, I'd like to know?" asked Grace. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in Florida Or, Wintering in the Sunny South] Reference
He felt himself supremely helpless in the presence of the direful calamity. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
To hang upon that which is dark, direful, and saddening tends to degeneracy. From Wordnik.com. [Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child.] Reference
The idea of these direful effect of slavery demand your most serious attention. From Wordnik.com. [Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872] Reference
It was a poor scrawl containing direful threats to anyone opposing the new union. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail] Reference
Quirinal Hill, and lived through the direful days which followed the death of Cæsar. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
It was many a day before the effects of this direful calamity were entirely obliterated. From Wordnik.com. [Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers] Reference
The depredations of these devouring insects was too soon felt, and a direful scarcity ensued. From Wordnik.com. [An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa] Reference
Grandison to his room on the following morning, to see that servant return with direful news. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
There are other preparations which have become instruments of direful and often fatal injury. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
Blackletter -- that often produces delightful, though sometimes, be it added, direful results. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and Lettering A Treatise With 200 Examples] Reference
Such an event, it was believed, could only foreshadow the most direful calamities to the state. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
And more cruel than flame, than direful fate, than death itself, the heart of Rusha Lisle, which. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
In fact, it seemed to Paul that a black shadow of direful portent hung over them throughout the meal. From Wordnik.com. [High Noon A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn] Reference
It would be tedious to recount his uprisings of anger, and the direful consequences that often followed. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
Jupiter sent off his thunderbolt to a noted coppersmith to have it furbished up for the direful occasion. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
No direful visions appal their happy souls, nor terrific ghosts of quondam hours stand arrayed before them. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
Immediately upon that there came the direful phantom, which she felt that she could not look upon and live. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
To expose the tender nursling to that direful cold was almost as cruel as leaving it to the mercy of the fire. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
Nothing was changed there; but the moment she entered she felt that there was a direful difference in herself. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
And such to a greater or less extent is what He sees in each one of us; so direful are the results of bad Education. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
The same spirit which led him to disregard physical obstacles, prevented his shrinking from even direful necessities. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
Let us hope the direful upheaving, which is now felt throughout the Union, is the earthquake that will bury it forever. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference
The newspapers of the day were filled with accounts of this direful disaster, but there were few survivors to tell the tale. From Wordnik.com. [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference
The simple historical record shows that in what Bacon calls the 'insanity of states,' her influence has generally been direful. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
Gaslight brings direful havoc to good eyes, especially when the flame is in a mood to flicker and splutter, as gas sometimes does. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference
In the midst of all this direful tumult, and while the conflagration of the city drove the confederates out of their places of concealment. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865] Reference
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