Wailful

//ˈweɪlfəl//

"Wailful" in a Sentence (3 examples)

"O queen, a tale too true, / too sad for words, thou biddest me repeat; / how Ilion perished, and the Danaan crew / her power and all her wailful realm o'erthrew: / the woes I saw, thrice piteous to behold, / and largely shared."

Farre better I it deeme to die with speed / Then waste in woe and waylfull miserye […]

You must lay Lime, to tangle her desires / By walefull Sonnets, whose composed Rimes / Should be full fraught with seruiceable vowes.

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