Example Sentences

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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.

"And she told me herself to go ahead," he thought irefully.

From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie

It was enough to make him stir irefully in his coffin at Windsor.

From Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood by Greenwood, Grace

Her great blue eyes turned irefully upon me, her bowed lips parted, her nostrils quivered.

From The Inheritors by Conrad, Joseph

"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