ireful

Example Sentences

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It makes me ireful to think o’ them.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

"What are you here for?" said Miss Fortune, with an ireful face.

From The Wide, Wide World by Warner, Susan

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

When her ireful mood had worn itself away, she got up with the stiffness of the mind's depression intensifying the body's chill, and made her way swiftly toward home.

From Country Neighbors by Brown, Alice

Cadmus' house they wail; With beating hands their tresses tear, and robes; And highly Juno blame, as one unjust: Too ireful for the hapless sister's fault.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.