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Significados de direful en inglés

Causing fear or dread or terror.

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Uso de direful en inglés
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The direful youths fought in the Steynham stables, overheard by the grooms.
Beauchamp's Career — Volume 1
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He felt himself supremely helpless in the presence of the direful calamity.
Flint: His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes
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At night the scene was far more direful than in the day.
Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, from the mss. of Fray Anto...
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They discovered uncharted islands and cheerfully fought savages or suffered direful shipwreck.
The Old Merchant Marine: A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailo...
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In such a case, how avert the chances of a direful conflict?
The Uprising of a Great People / The United States in 1861. to W...
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When he arrived in his native land he learned of two direful events.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3
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She felt instinctively that the name was one of direful omen to herself.
The Golden Dog
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To-day the contemplation of that commonplace garden gave him direful pain.
Charlotte's Inheritance
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This, I am sure, will avert the bloody and direful conflict.
Rolling Stones
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First, Jemmy Tweedle felt on his hinder head the direful bone.
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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It seemed as if poverty became ever more direful, and dissatisfaction more importunate.
Great Britain and Her Queen
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The three men knew that she brought momentous, perchance direful, intelligence.
The Albert Gate Mystery / Being Further Adventures of Reginald B...
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That direful mishap was at the bottom of his temporary recluseness.
Moby Dick
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You who make dramas, you will never invent anything as direful as that.
The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan
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To hang upon that which is dark, direful, and saddening tends to degeneracy.
Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading / A compendium of...
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The day had been too full, too full of direful things.
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