ireful

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It makes me ireful to think o’ them.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

He was flushed and hot and hoarse, but the gleam in his eye was no longer that of offended pride and ireful resolve.

From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Day, Holman

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

From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda

Wave my lady dear a last farewell, Lamenting who to one and all of us Domestics was a mother, myriad harms She used to ward away from every one, And mollify her husband's ireful mood.

From What Great Men Have Said About Women Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 77 by Haldeman-Julius, Marcet

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

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