ireful
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It makes me ireful to think o’ them.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
Casting a somewhat ireful glance at "Noah o' Tim's," he launched out in his turn; and now he spoke in a serious tone, relinquishing the sarcasm which he found had not answered.
From Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
"What poisoning doctor did you send?" he asked, with an ireful glance; "I want no doctor, I am not ill; I will not follow his prescription; he forbade me to eat; I will eat."
From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850 by Various
Thus ireful Cybebe spoke and loosed the yoke with her hand.
From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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
