ireful

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It makes me ireful to think o’ them.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

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

As she paces to and fro the ugly din fades out of her ears and the ireful red out of her cheeks.

From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda

Full ireful he went; Fiercely he fought; flight he disdained.

From Old English Poems Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose by Various

He starteth now To hear that dying cry; and there is one, All worn and wave-wet, by his bark anon, Clinging, in terror of the ireful sea, A fair hair'd mariner!

From The Death-Wake or Lunacy; a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras by Lang, Andrew