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Definition of Painfuller
1. painful [adj] - See also: painful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Painfuller
Literary usage of Painfuller
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great: in ten vol by Thomas Carlyle (1859)
"At sight of him every pain grows painfuller!"—the poor King being of poetic
temperament, as we often say. Friends are encouraged to smoke, especially to ..."
2. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1858)
"... and will smart for it if they enter, —" At sight of him every pain grows
painfuller!"—the poor King being of poetic temperament, as we often say. ..."
3. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"Surely few things in the history of carnage are painfuller. What ineffaceable
red streak, flickering so sad in the memory, is that, of this poor column ..."
4. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1909)
"... [1792 AD] Surely few things in the history of carnage are painfuller.
What ineffaceable red streak, flickering so sad in the memory, is that, ..."
5. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1904)
"Few sights I have looked on have been painfuller to me than that of a man with
your energies and qualities struggling in such a scene, under such galling ..."
6. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1890)
"... die at once (seeing death is the end of all miseries) than so often to be
killed, and to sustain so many hellish furies painfuller than death itself? ..."
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