用direful造句子，“direful”造句

Clay prayed," I implore, as the best blessing which Heaven can bestow upon me upon earth, that if the direful and sad event of the dissolution of the Union shall happen, I may not survive to behold the sad and heart-rending spectacle.

Gratiano. 'Tis some mischance; the cry is very direful.

What mind is there that does not shrink from its direful effects?