ireful
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It makes me ireful to think o’ them.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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
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 Marcet Haldeman-Julius
As she paces to and fro the ugly din fades out of her ears and the ireful red out of her cheeks.
From Doctor Cupid by Rhoda Broughton
