"Direly" Quotes from Famous Books
... this place, possessed of no means whatever wherewith to commence his life's work. Unable to buy building materials, he began to hollow out a church from the rock, without help or money of any kind, beyond that given him by the pious but direly poor peasants of the neighbourhood. The labour must have been immense, but there it stands a monument ... — The Land of the Black Mountain - The Adventures of Two Englishmen in Montenegro • Reginald Wyon |