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

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

Thus ireful Cybebe spoke and loosed the yoke with her hand.

From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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