| The war wages on and the winter is hard, but in these most direful moments I draw warmth from the fond memories I hold of you. |
| Added to his other disappointments, a direful change had taken place at camp. |
| Bodies of the slain lay heaped about the ditch, sad and direful proofs of the fearful struggle on that well-remembered night. |
| Dark, direful clouds floated overhead, threatening to release a downpour of rain at any moment, so the park was void of visitors. |
| The Chilam Balam books are full of predictions of a markedly direful character. |
| To and fro, to and fro, the dying man continued his direful walk. |
