GRIEVOUS in a Sentence

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But these solemn lessons which succeeded those, I remember as the death-blow of my peace, and a grievous daily drudgery and misery.

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 Meanings and Examples of GRIEVOUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
grievous
 a.  causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  There goes a woman," resumed Roger Chillingworth, after a pause, "who, be her demerits what they may, hath none of that mystery of hidden sinfulness which you deem so grievous to be borne.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
2  And now, rather than have had this grievous wrong to confess, she would gladly have laid down on the forest leaves, and died there, at Arthur Dimmesdale's feet.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
3  I hope, from the bottom of my heart, he won't keep her waiting much longer, for it is quite grievous to see her look so ill and forlorn.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29
4  His demands and your inexperience together, on a small, very small income, must have brought on distresses which would not be the LESS grievous to you, from having been entirely unknown and unthought of before.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47
5  That she had done a grievous thing in taking an impressionable child to mould into the form that her wild resentment, spurned affection, and wounded pride found vengeance in, I knew full well.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLIX
6  I am sure,' my poor mother went on, at a grievous disadvantage, and with many tears, 'I don't want anybody to go.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
7  But these solemn lessons which succeeded those, I remember as the death-blow of my peace, and a grievous daily drudgery and misery.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
8  His hands were clenched and his arms thrown abroad, while his lower limbs were interlocked as though his death struggle had been a grievous one.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
9  The solemn procession, headed by Baddeley, of tea-board, urn, and cake-bearers, made its appearance, and delivered her from a grievous imprisonment of body and mind.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
10  Here had been grievous mismanagement; but, bad as it was, he gradually grew to feel that it had not been the most direful mistake in his plan of education.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
11  A new and most unpleasant system of menace had begun, and the intent appeared to be to do him grievous bodily harm.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 4 Rough Coercion Is Employed
12  When a woman in such a situation, neither old, deaf, crazed, nor whimsical, takes upon herself to sob and soliloquize aloud there is something grievous the matter.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November
13  This catastrophe I am inclined to regard as an unhappy accident, for I am convinced that the lady had no intention of inflicting so grievous an injury.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
14  It is a grievous affair to my poor girls, you must confess.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
15  Linton had slid from his seat on to the hearthstone, and lay writhing in the mere perverseness of an indulged plague of a child, determined to be as grievous and harassing as it can.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
Example Sentence:
1  He had been the victim of a grievous injustice.
2  The loss of his father was a grievous blow.
3  Thus relieved of a grievous load, I from that hour set to work afresh, resolved to pioneer my way through every difficulty.