ireful

Example Sentences

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It makes me ireful to think o’ them.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

She left the bower; and as he stept To and fro in ireful mood, A stranger from the chamber came, And close behind him stood.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 by Various

In this ireful frame of mind, Mabel met the ladies of the Advisory Council.

From Comrade Yetta by Edwards, Albert

He starteth now To hear that dying cry; and there is one, All worn and wave-wet, by his bark anon, Clinging, in terror of the ireful sea, A fair hair'd mariner!

From The Death-Wake or Lunacy; a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras by Lang, Andrew

“Why aren’t you on your way?” she demanded, with ireful impatience.

From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Day, Holman