ireful

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

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

From Counsel for the Defense by Chapman, Charles M.

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

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