Oh, if my mind had not been distempered, I should have surely known that to me that day would be the blackest and direst of days, and I should have let it pass without ever crossing the threshold of my home!

"Better to seek vengeance dire than mumble on thy kneesmount, I say!" Forthwith Sir Fidelis arose, nothing speaking, and being in the saddle, reined back and suffered Beltane to ride alone.

Never, through the whole darkness of hell, beheld I a blasphemer so dire as thisnot even Capaneus himself.

HELENA Wherefore the time recall of that half-widowhood, And what destruction dire to me therefrom hath grown!

Tont ce que nous osons dire à la dame que nous aimons, c'est que nous envions près d'elle la place des canards mandarins.

In this direst of needs the boy finally plucked up courage and pounded on the door with all his might.

Ça va sans dire in 1861,particularly when you were engaged to your Amanda the evening before you started, as was the case with many a stalwart brave and many a mighty man of a corporal or sergeant in our ranks.

The heroine, for instance, glides into life full-charged with rank, virtues, a name three-syllabled, and a white dress that never needs washing, ready to sail through dangers dire into a triumphant haven of matrimony;all the aristocrats have high foreheads and cold blue eyes; all the peasants are old women, miraculously grateful, in neat check aprons, or sullen-browed insurgents planning revolts in caves.