Dire

Examples

• He was roused from a meditation on these dire imaginings by the sudden appearance of two figures at a turn of the lane. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Je ne saurais vous dire 'how;' mais, enfin, les Anglais ont des idées à eux, en amitié, en amour, en tout. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Where could we turn, and not find a desolation pregnant with the dire lesson of example? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• At which juncture, he exclaimed, in a voice of dire exasperation: Bust me, if she ain't at it agin! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• This was a dire blow to poor Elizabeth, who had relied with firmness upon Justine's innocence. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Tragedies deep and dire were the chief favourites. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Do you not behold the clouds open, and destruction lurid and dire pour down on the blasted earth? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Kala punished, Tublat swore dire vengeance, and old Kerchak took notice and warned and threatened; but all to no avail. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• He only seemed to contrast his present cheerfulness and felicity with the dire endurance that was over. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Pile dirge on dirge; rouse the funereal chords; let the air ring with dire wailing; let wild discord rush on the wings of the wind! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Vase am I, she thought, vase brimful of despair's direst essence. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I met several funerals; they were slenderly attended by mourners, and were regarded by the spectators as omens of direst import. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• No one could have been in direr poverty than he when the steamboat landed him in New York in 1869. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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