ireful

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It makes me ireful to think o’ them.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

“There you have it, John,” he snarled, more ireful as a champion than the unhappy principal.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman

The first published in his twenty-fifth year, bears all the characteristics of the young man of genius, roughened, no less than strengthened by the asperities of the experience out of whose ireful plenitude he writes.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various

Mrs. Salsify looked lofty, and tossed her carroty head; but her husband had waxed bold in his distress, and could not be intimidated by ireful brows, or pursed-up lips.

From Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems by Afton, Effie

Wave my lady dear a last farewell, Lamenting who to one and all of us Domestics was a mother, myriad harms She used to ward away from every one, And mollify her husband's ireful mood.

From What Great Men Have Said About Women Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 77 by Haldeman-Julius, Marcet