ireful

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It makes me ireful to think o’ them.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

He sprang up again and turned his ireful face to where, in the crowd, sat the old politician.

From Counsel for the Defense by Chapman, Charles M.

He did not give back a step before her ireful figure.

From Counsel for the Defense by Chapman, Charles M.

"Where are you goin', Aaron?" asked the placid Louada Murilla, troubled by his ireful demeanor.

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

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