ireful

Example Sentences

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It makes me ireful to think o’ them.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

But his ireful restlessness will not allow him to accept this concession.

From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda

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

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

"If I hadn't had the devil's own luck, I'd have been a rich man, instead of a beggar," answered the tramp, with a grim look and an ireful knitting of his black brows.

From Silver Pitchers: and Independence A Centennial Love Story by Alcott, Louisa May