direful

"I always say there is something direful in the sound."

What if he adds to that some direful word concerning yourself?

The first couple of years will be direful, of course.

Thus, direful war began again, and lasted for three years, when the Unready died.

As if all these direful outrages were not the natural results of slavery!

And then, for the first time, her mind touched upon the other side of those direful prophecies.

It will be pretty direful if that tree is allowed to fruit."

The day had been too full, too full of direful things.

His heart almost ceased to beat as he quite naturally placed the most direful explanation upon the scene.

Vera Vanguard read scraps from another book, while they assessed a very direful situation.

A direful disease, which will destroy all your charms.'

With straining eyes, then, they remained on the outer edge of the direful zone, whose centre had now become the old man's head.

To expose the young, tender things to the direful cold was almost as bad as leaving them to the mercy of the fire.

You who make dramas, you will never invent anything as direful as that.

So when Fafhrd's direful outburst was finished, he made no comment.

I almost said the direful word.

That direful mishap was at the bottom of his temporary recluseness.

"Saved" during a serious illness at fourteen, he continued to struggle with his "direful condition" in a search for salvation.

One young fellow in a green box coat, addressed himself to these dumplings in a most direful manner.

The surveyor's theodolite is one of the more direful symbols of the twentieth century.

He is, without doubt, the worst Education Secretary we've had, and we've had some direful ones.

All present were struck with the direful probability; for events of the kind are extremely common in Germany, as many well authenticated histories bear witness.

Behind them, walking almost bent double with horror and dread, white-faced, like a man who has gazed upon direful things, came the minstrel.

Disease Most dire of direful Destiny's!

What direful illusion led thee hither?