ireful

Example Sentences

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It makes me ireful to think o’ them.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

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 Palgrave, Francis Turner

The lieutenant twisted his derby in chagrined, ireful hands.

From No. 13 Washington Square by Scott, Leroy

At these ireful words, Nathan's eyes began to widen.

From Nick of the Woods by Bird, Robert M.

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