ireful

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It makes me ireful to think o’ them.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

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

The lieutenant twisted his derby in chagrined, ireful hands.

From No. 13 Washington Square by Scott, Leroy

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

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.