Dark, direful clouds floated overhead, threatening to release a downpour of rain at any moment, so the park was void of visitors.
The resultant blur is an emblem of the paranoid experience, a concurrence of simultaneous direful events.
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.
The Chilam Balam books are full of predictions of a markedly direful character.
Let us not think for a minute that all the direful results belong to the victim.
It's a direful thing to have in your hands, a desiccated version of Lady Gaga's skirt-steak dress.
Pliny the Elder not only considered lightning direful, but noticed it often accompanied volcanic eruptions.
I always say there is something direful in the sound.

But more direful than all this was the punishment which fell upon Etruria and Samnium.
Bodies of the slain lay heaped about the ditch, sad and direful proofs of the fearful struggle on that well-remembered night.
I left him, with a strong foreboding that he would work me some direful mischief.
Added to his other disappointments, a direful change had taken place at camp.
She felt instinctively that the name was one of direful omen to herself.
And what of the patient for whom the direful prognosis was intended?
Startled from his lethargy by that direful cry, Jonah staggers to his feet, and stumbling to the deck, grasps a shroud, to look out upon the sea.
One young fellow in a green box coat, addressed himself to these dumplings in a most direful manner.
His heart almost ceased to beat as he quite naturally placed the most direful explanation upon the scene.
Those of the little band who escaped fled in consternation to the camp, and spread direful reports of the force and ferocity of the enemy.
To and fro, to and fro, the dying man continued his direful walk.
As if all these direful outrages were not the natural results of slavery!

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