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Usage examples of woefully.

The cuts and bruises I had received from the jagged sides of the rock shaft were paining me woefully, their soreness enhanced to a stinging or burning acuteness by some pungent quality in the faint draft, and the mere act of rolling over was enough to set my whole frame throbbing with untold agony.

Obviously the Quabarl family had been woefully befooled, but a certain amount of relief came with the knowledge.

In some places a drenched and irate citizenry raised the alarm immediately, while others were left to awaken to peculiar smells and woefully soggy carpeting.

At last this Venus stood before me in a state of nature, covering her most secret parts with her hand, and hiding one breast with the other, and appearing woefully ashamed of what she could not conceal.

He took time to blow upon that slowmatch, but then, as he harbored scant faith in the ability of the ancient, ill-balanced and woefully inaccurate firelock to accomplish anything more of value than a loud noise to alert the camp, he reined up long enough to check by a vagrant beam of moonlight that the priming had not shaken from out the pan of his new wheel-lock pistol.

I said nothing, but I thought to myself that if the poor young man gave himself all this trouble he would be woefully misled, as he would not see me.

We are woefully ignorant about them and most often end up killing the ones we need, while failing to control the pestiferous ones.

Geneva was glad enough to chaunt through the nose his translations of the Psalms, but it was woefully puzzled at his salacity, and the town was very soon too hot to hold him in his exile.

To Olivia, this seemed woefully inadequate, for when she was young, nothing less than a full bathcalidarium, tepidarium, frigidariumand a massage with costly oils followed by a nine-course banquet would be considered a proper welcome for so august a man as Belisarius.

The fast affinity exchange which followed made Ione feel woefully inadequate.

And to any young susceptible generous man, as she believed him to be, the habitual sight of a woman so lovely, so amiable, so fascinating, and so woefully mismated, was most dangerous.

While current response plans and preparedness measures may be adequate for moderate earthquakes, Federal, State, and local officials agree that preparations are woefully inadequate to cope with the damage and casualties from a catastrophic earthquake, and with the disruptions in communications, social fabric, and governmental structure that may follow.

He felt woefully underqualified for this sort of work, but it was too late to stop now.

Her lackluster dramatic vehicles only pointed up the fact that she was bright, funny, well read, and woefully underserved by the material given her.

Damon High was woefully understocked, a fact that probably infuriated Mr.