ireful
Example Sentences
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It makes me ireful to think o’ them.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
He did not give back a step before her ireful figure.
From Counsel for the Defense by Chapman, Charles M.
He sprang up again and turned his ireful face to where, in the crowd, sat the old politician.
From Counsel for the Defense by Chapman, Charles M.
There was the ireful consciousness that the narrow-gauge folks were giving him a raw deal on that dynamite matter.
From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Day, Holman
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
