ireful
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It makes me ireful to think o’ them.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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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.
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
"What are you here for?" said Miss Fortune, with an ireful face.
From The Wide, Wide World by Warner, Susan
In this ireful frame of mind, Mabel met the ladies of the Advisory Council.
From Comrade Yetta by Edwards, Albert