ireful

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It makes me ireful to think o’ them.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

“Why aren’t you on your way?” she demanded, with ireful impatience.

From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Day, Holman

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

"Don't be lying there," said the ireful cook.

From The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts by Yellott, George

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