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
She left the bower; and as he stept To and fro in ireful mood, A stranger from the chamber came, And close behind him stood.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 by Various
He sprang up again and turned his ireful face to where, in the crowd, sat the old politician.
From Counsel for the Defense by Charles M. Chapman
Mrs. Salsify looked lofty, and tossed her carroty head; but her husband had waxed bold in his distress, and could not be intimidated by ireful brows, or pursed-up lips.
From Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems by Effie Afton
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