ireful
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It makes me ireful to think o’ them.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
Thus ireful Cybebe spoke and loosed the yoke with her hand.
From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
“If I’m man enough!” said he, jumping with his shot into his boat, with ireful alacrity.
From Rattlin the Reefer by Marryat, Frederick
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
