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

"If I hadn't had the devil's own luck, I'd have been a rich man, instead of a beggar," answered the tramp, with a grim look and an ireful knitting of his black brows.

From Silver Pitchers: and Independence A Centennial Love Story by Alcott, Louisa May

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

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