Example Sentences
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Her great blue eyes turned irefully upon me, her bowed lips parted, her nostrils quivered.
From The Inheritors by Conrad, Joseph
His face was convulsed with passion, and his eyes glanced irefully upon the surprised Fabian.
From The Home in the Valley by Perce, Elbert
He, this school autocrat, gathered all and sundry reins into the hollow of his one hand; he irefully rejected any colleague; he would not have help.
From Villette by Brontë, Charlotte
But there," she continued irefully, "you may talk to a fool till you are dead and 'twill still be a fool!
From Starvecrow Farm by Weyman, Stanley J.
"What?" demanded Mrs. Stanton, irefully, pulling away from the girl who was trying to coax back good nature.
From All-Wool Morrison by Day, Holman
