ireful
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It makes me ireful to think o’ them.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
"What poisoning doctor did you send?" he asked, with an ireful glance; "I want no doctor, I am not ill; I will not follow his prescription; he forbade me to eat; I will eat."
From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850 by Various
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
Mine ireful mood had sweetness tamed, And soothed each wound which pride inflamed:— Yes, God and man might now approve me If thou hadst lived, and lived to love me!
From The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by Francis Turner Palgrave
"Where are you goin', Aaron?" asked the placid Louada Murilla, troubled by his ireful demeanor.
From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Holman Day
