Meanings of direful consequences in английском

It would be tedious to recount his uprisings of anger, and the direful consequences that often followed.

Anticipating the most direful consequences, Douglass made the desperate resolution to resist any further punishment at Covey's hands.

And if once established should we not revert to a state of ignorance, with all its barbarous and direful consequences?

He paused in awed contemplation of the direful consequences if she should, but for the life of him he couldn't stop.

We cannot hide from you, Sir, the direful consequences of expressions so opposed to the constant principles of our national code.

He declared this to be "a dangerous precedent which overthrows the Constitution and may be fraught with direful consequences."

But as every disloyalty punished itself, so this also caused very direful consequences; for betrayal of the master was betrayal of oneself.

You would prefer the fame of Achilles to that of Homer, who told the story of his wrath and its direful consequences.

Till then, I would consider the helpless girl, tongue-tied by her condition, and injured enough already by my misplaced love and its direful consequences.