direfull

Updated: October 11, 2025

Yet she offer'd no Resistance to the Officers of the Law; onely she looked upon those that laid Hands upon her with so direfull and venomous an Aspect that as one of them afterwards assured me the meer Thought of it preyed inwardly upon his Mind for six Months after.

M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James - Ghost Stories of an Antiquary