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  • When I think of the days I worked and the miles I traveled to achieve these things for the Woman's building, my ire rises a little yet.†   (source)
  • Rachel I could only despise more if I knew for sure which way to direct my ire, presumably South Africa, where I guess she's finally hit paydirt with her exceeding whiteness and mercenary husband.†   (source)
  • Ire had no intention of running away from stupid slaves.†   (source)
  • "Not to bring on the ire prematurely," he whispered, "but do you mind telling me what it is about this bed that you object to?"†   (source)
  • However, the moment Horst mentioned the wordbarges, the villagers' cries of ire and discontent blotted out his voice.†   (source)
  • It's up to the daddy in question to assuage her ire.†   (source)
  • Now the calendar drew her eye and her ire.†   (source)
  • Any scheme that draws their ire draws my suspicions.†   (source)
  • In 1618, the Czech estates took courage and vented their ire on the emperor reigning in Vienna by pitching two of his high officials out of a window in the Prague Castle.†   (source)
  • It seemed incredible that such lasting ire as Corporal Whitcomb's could have stemmed from his rejection of Bingo or the form letters home to the families of the men killed in combat.†   (source)
  • Despite my careful plan, I had now made the mistake of raising his ire.†   (source)
  • His sister's ire had led her to overlook the true significance of Stannis Baratheon's letter.†   (source)
  • I hated cleaning too but was certainly not about to risk the ire of my new roommates.†   (source)
  • Still, Adams was determined not to let personal ire stand in the way of his duty regarding the work at hand.†   (source)
  • Doggit, let'm have his pie," ordered Grandpa, slapping ire on the back.†   (source)
  • However, Ire been away a lot and haven't paid much attention to her, so I guess I should make peace.†   (source)
  • But it was the lack of sleep that raised her ire most of all, and consequently, nothing irritated her more than hearing stories of other mothers whose infants slept through the night within weeks of leaving the hospital.†   (source)
  • But if they gave him 130 or fewer pounds, they risked the ire of rival horsemen and the excoriation of journalists.†   (source)
  • I wanted to tackle my brother to the ground, but it would only earn Sofia his ire.†   (source)
  • It got to be a little tiresome, picturesque as the language was, and I realized that the old man's ire was founded upon neither snobbishness nor prudery—as a shipyard worker and, before that, as a merchant mariner, his ears had surely overflowed with such billingsgate—but upon something as uncomplicated as an abiding belief in good manners and public decency.†   (source)
  • JAMES takes his hat from the rack, and going down the porch steps joins KATE and KELLER talking in the yard, KELLER in a sputter of ire.†   (source)
  • Why endanger him or earn his ire at no benefit to ourselves?   (source)
  • It's an ordinary two-story house that in Idris's neighborhood in San Jose would draw the ire of the HOA folks.   (source)
  • There was still enough petty ire in my system to make me glad, not for his pain, but for the idea of having Renesmee away from him.   (source)
  • ...as the months progressed, Tommy was consistently gathering the ire of the Hitler Youth leaders, especially when it came to the marching.   (source)
  • Her eyes already burned with unnatural light, a violet ire reflected in her tears.†   (source)
  • Ire stood with his back to the boy, staring at the gray window.†   (source)
  • gentle queen, such savagery would bring down the ire of the gods.†   (source)
  • A few minutes with Helen were not worth the consequence of raising Moody's ire.†   (source)
  • The king's men had incurred Stannis's ire on Dragonstone if the talk Jon heard was true.†   (source)
  • No longer concerned or caring about what to call God and energized by his ire, he walked up to the door.†   (source)
  • In the months after the uprising, police broke up as many gang "unity" rallies as they could, arresting truce leaders, and inflaming the ire of residents of housing projects, in which many of the rallies were being held.†   (source)
  • I'd already earned Lucas' ire, and perhaps Vivienne's too, judging by the way she always looked at me so warily.†   (source)
  • He paused, his sulking ire turning to melancholy, and frowned irritably as though it were all Yossarian's fault.†   (source)
  • "I didn't say anything about ire," Luke began, with a mixture of deliberate calm and faint exasperation—Clary doubted that anyone who didn't know him well would know he was irritated at all.†   (source)
  • Of the two, Adams would have less to say, and unlike Abigail, he did not confront Jefferson with his ire.†   (source)
  • He stared at it, disbelief wrangling with ire.†   (source)
  • Artificial ire flung the spittle on his lips.†   (source)
  • It roused his ire also-the deepest element of revolt in him.†   (source)
  • " ejaculated Father Ambrose, "how prompt to ire are these unhallowed laymen!†   (source)
  • This question at once appeased the growing ire of the half-offended Indian beauty.†   (source)
  • He felt that he needed to pour out his ire and he took the road to her house.†   (source)
  • He endeavored, in a general way, to express a particular disapproval, and only succeeded in arousing the ire and opposition of his father-in-law.†   (source)
  • It is a fire which proceeds directly from the ire of God, working not of its own activity but as an instrument of Divine vengeance.†   (source)
  • My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire.†   (source)
  • He stalked in front of the ladies, and seated himself at the feet of his mistress, growling louder than before, and occasionally giving vent to his ire by a short, surly barking.†   (source)
  • How it was that they so aboundingly responded to the old man's ire—by what evil magic their souls were possessed, that at times his hate seemed almost theirs; the White Whale as much their insufferable foe as his; how all this came to be—what the White Whale was to them, or how to their unconscious understandings, also, in some dim, unsuspected way, he might have seemed the gliding great demon of the seas of life,—all this to explain, would be to dive deeper than Ishmael can go.†   (source)
  • The bile and rancour of the worthy Miss Knag undergoing no diminution during the remainder of the week, but rather augmenting with every successive hour; and the honest ire of all the young ladies rising, or seeming to rise, in exact proportion to the good spinster's indignation, and both waxing very hot every time Miss Nickleby was called upstairs; it will be readily imagined that that young lady's daily life was none of the most cheerful or enviable kind.†   (source)
  • He swallowed his ire for the moment, but he afterwards wrote to decline further attendance in the case.†   (source)
  • Oliver's offence having been explained to him, with such exaggerations as the ladies thought best calculated to rouse his ire, he unlocked the cellar-door in a twinkling, and dragged his rebellious apprentice out, by the collar.†   (source)
  • When others dance, he weighs the matter:
    If he can't every step bechatter,
    Then 'tis the same as were the step not made;
    But if you forwards go, his ire is most displayed.†   (source)
  • He paraded his Musketeers before the Cardinal Armand Duplessis with an insolent air which made the gray moustache of his Eminence curl with ire.†   (source)
  • "When there is hunger in the lodge of a warrior, he looks for the buffaloe, which is given him for food," the Teton continued, struggling to keep down the ire excited by the other's scorn.†   (source)
  • —I?" the old man cried, in his shrillest tone, while lip and beard curled with ire, and on his forehead and neck the veins swelled and beat as they would burst.†   (source)
  • And he said, moreover, that he and his comrades, and especially Wamba the Jester, were resolved to warn Gurth to make his escape by the way, in case Cedric's ire against him could not be mitigated.†   (source)
  • The ire of the warriors kindled at listening to such a reproach from one who so far disdained their efforts as to refuse even to wink when a rifle was discharged as near his face as could be done without burning it.†   (source)
  • I felt pain, and then I felt ire; and then I felt a determination to subdue her — to be her mistress in spite both of her nature and her will.†   (source)
  • These two discontented spirits got together, it is true, feeding each other's ire, but as yet their malignant feelings were confined very much to themselves, though there existed the danger that the others, ere long, could not fail to be excited by their own efforts into that demoniacal state which usually accompanied all similar scenes among the red men.†   (source)
  • I knew the steely ire I had whetted.†   (source)
  • Heaven in ire has driven him from his country, but industry has opened to him the only road to power and to influence, which oppression has left unbarred.†   (source)
  • Pain, shame, ire, impatience, disgust, detestation, seemed momentarily to hold a quivering conflict in the large pupil dilating under his ebon eyebrow.†   (source)
  • Had I attended to the suggestions of pride and ire, I should immediately have left him; but something worked within me more strongly than those feelings could.†   (source)
  • Eliza and Georgiana, evidently acting according to orders, spoke to me as little as possible: John thrust his tongue in his cheek whenever he saw me, and once attempted chastisement; but as I instantly turned against him, roused by the same sentiment of deep ire and desperate revolt which had stirred my corruption before, he thought it better to desist, and ran from me tittering execrations, and vowing I had burst his nose.†   (source)
  • And then they dressed their shields, and came running together with great ire.†   (source)
  • Also in that ire he felled King Morganore, and there was great slaughter of good knights and much people.†   (source)
  • Then Sir Tristram was ware of him, and there he stooped aside, and with great ire he gat him by the arm, and pulled him down from his horse.†   (source)
  • By then was Sir Palomides horsed, and with great ire he jousted upon Sir Tristram with his spear as it was in the rest, and gave him a great dash with his sword.†   (source)
  • RIGHT as she promised she came; and she was not so soon in his bed but she espied an armed knight coming toward the bed: therewithal she warned Sir Gareth, and lightly through the good help of Dame Lionesse he was armed; and they hurtled together with great ire and malice all about the hall; and there was great light as it had been the number of twenty torches both before and behind, so that Sir Gareth strained him, so that his old wound brast again a-bleeding; but he was hot and courageous and took no keep, but with his great force he struck down that knight, and voided his helm, and struck off his head.†   (source)
  • And then was Sir Bleoberis wroth, and gat a spear and rode against Sir Tristram in great ire; and there Sir Tristram met with him, and smote Sir Bleoberis from his horse So then the King with the Hundred Knights was wroth, and he horsed Sir Bleoberis and Sir Gaheris again, and there began a great medley; and ever Sir Tristram held them passing short, and ever Sir Bleoberis was passing busy upon Sir Tristram; and there came Sir Dinadan against Sir Tristram, and Sir Tristram gave him such a buffet that he swooned in his saddle.†   (source)
  • And then they avoided their horses as noble knights, and dressed their shields, and drew their swords with ire and rancour, and they lashed together many sad strokes, and one while striking, another while foining, tracing and traversing as noble knights; thus they fought long, near half a day, and either were sore wounded.†   (source)
  • It makes me ireful to think o' them.†   (source)
  • He all along the house scanned;
    Then turn'd by the wall along, heav'd up his weapon
    Hard by the hilts the Hygelac's thane there,
    Ireful one-reded; naught worthless the edge was
    Unto the warrior; but rathely now would he
    To Grendel make payment of many war-onsets,
    Of them that he wrought on the folk of the West Danes
    Oftener by mickle than one time alone,
    Whenas he the hearthfellows of Hrothgar the King 1580
    Slew in their slumber and fretted them sleeping,
    Men fifteen to wit of the folk of the Danes,
    And e'en such another deal ferry'd off outward,
    Loathly prey.†   (source)
  • 'Take care, Ellen!' answered Isabella, her eyes sparkling irefully; there was no misdoubting by their expression the full success of her partner's endeavours to make himself detested.†   (source)
  • But as he sat still for a moment, and as he steadfastly looked into the mate's malignant eye and perceived the stacks of powder-casks heaped up in him and the slow-match silently burning along towards them; as he instinctively saw all this, that strange forbearance and unwillingness to stir up the deeper passionateness in any already ireful being—a repugnance most felt, when felt at all, by really valiant men even when aggrieved—this nameless phantom feeling, gentlemen, stole over Steelkilt.†   (source)
  • He had a dark face, with stern features and a heavy brow; his eyes and gathered eyebrows looked ireful and thwarted just now; he was past youth, but had not reached middle-age; perhaps he might be thirty-five.†   (source)
  • Beware from ire that in thy bosom sleeps,   (source)
    ire = strong anger
  • But in matters of learning he was orthodox to the point of hunkerousness, and the strange locutions that [Pg038] he encountered on all sides aroused his pedagogic ire.†   (source)
  • Hereupon he pawed the journal open and pored upon Lord only knows what, found drowned or the exploits of King Willow, Iremonger having made a hundred and something second wicket not out for Notts, during which time (completely regardless of Ire) the keeper was intensely occupied loosening an apparently new or secondhand boot which manifestly pinched him as he muttered against whoever it was sold it, all of them who were sufficiently awake enough to be picked out by their facial expressions, that is to say, either simply looking on glumly or passing a trivial remark.†   (source)
  • A Greek named /Zoyiopoulous/, /Kolokotronis/, /Mavrokerdatos/ or /Constantinopolous/ would find it practically impossible to carry on amicable business with Americans; his name would arouse their mirth, if not their downright ire.†   (source)
  • And then they dressed their shields, and came running together with great ire.†   (source)
  • For once he fain had quenched the Maenad's fire; And of the tuneful Nine provoked the ire.†   (source)
  • or will God incense his ire
    For such a petty trespass?†   (source)
  • *executioner
    I could of ire you say so muche sorrow,
    My tale shoulde last until to-morrow.†   (source)
  • a thousand folk hath rakel ire
    Foully fordone, and brought them in the mire.†   (source)
  • what doubt we to incense
    His utmost ire?†   (source)
  • Also in that ire he felled King Morganore, and there was great slaughter of good knights and much people.†   (source)
  • My liege, I am advised what I say; Neither disturb'd with the effect of wine, Nor, heady-rash, provok'd with raging ire, Albeit my wrongs might make one wiser mad.†   (source)
  • They are doubly dangerous in their vicious ire Because they destroy us with what we admire, And their piety, which gains them an accolade, Is a tool to slay us with a sacred blade.†   (source)
  • In the Parson's Tale Chaucer says: "Envie and ire maken bitternesse in heart, which bitternesse is mother of accidie."†   (source)
  • Will he, so wise, let loose at once his ire,
    Belike through impotence or unaware,
    To give his enemies their wish, and end
    Them in his anger whom his anger saves
    To punish endless?†   (source)
  • While I was going on, my eyes encountered one, and I said straightway, "Ere now for sight of him I have not fasted;" wherefore to shape him out I stayed my feet, and the sweet Leader stopped with ire, and assented to my going somewhat back.†   (source)
  • Then Sir Tristram was ware of him, and there he stooped aside, and with great ire he gat him by the arm, and pulled him down from his horse.†   (source)
  • We offered first a prayer To Pluto and the goddess of cross-ways, With contrite hearts, to deprecate their ire.†   (source)
  • By then was Sir Palomides horsed, and with great ire he jousted upon Sir Tristram with his spear as it was in the rest, and gave him a great dash with his sword.†   (source)
  • And then they avoided their horses as noble knights, and dressed their shields, and drew their swords with ire and rancour, and they lashed together many sad strokes, and one while striking, another while foining, tracing and traversing as noble knights; thus they fought long, near half a day, and either were sore wounded.†   (source)
  • Juno,
    Thus hath your ire our lineage all fordo* *undone, ruined
    Save only me, and wretched Palamon,
    That Theseus martyreth in prison.†   (source)
  • Thus while he spake, each passion dimmed his face
    Thrice changed with pale, ire, envy, and despair;
    Which marred his borrowed visage, and betrayed
    Him counterfeit, if any eye beheld.†   (source)
  • *is the devil's work*
    Ire is a thing that high God hath defended,* *forbidden
    And thereof will I speak a word or two.†   (source)
  • And then was Sir Bleoberis wroth, and gat a spear and rode against Sir Tristram in great ire; and there Sir Tristram met with him, and smote Sir Bleoberis from his horse So then the King with the Hundred Knights was wroth, and he horsed Sir Bleoberis and Sir Gaheris again, and there began a great medley; and ever Sir Tristram held them passing short, and ever Sir Bleoberis was passing busy upon Sir Tristram; and there came Sir Dinadan against Sir Tristram, and Sir Tristram gave him such a buffet that he swooned in his saddle.†   (source)
  • Both have sinned; but thou
    Against God only; I against God and thee;
    And to the place of judgement will return,
    There with my cries importune Heaven; that all
    The sentence, from thy head removed, may light
    On me, sole cause to thee of all this woe;
    Me, me only, just object of his ire!†   (source)
  • This every lewed* vicar and parson *ignorant
    Can say, how ire engenders homicide;
    Ire is in sooth th' executor* of pride.†   (source)
  • Full soon
    Among them he arrived; in his right hand
    Grasping ten thousand thunders, which he sent
    Before him, such as in their souls infixed
    Plagues: They, astonished, all resistance lost,
    All courage; down their idle weapons dropt:
    O'er shields, and helms, and helmed heads he rode
    Of Thrones and mighty Seraphim prostrate,
    That wished the mountains now might be again
    Thrown on them, as a shelter from his ire.†   (source)
  • RIGHT as she promised she came; and she was not so soon in his bed but she espied an armed knight coming toward the bed: therewithal she warned Sir Gareth, and lightly through the good help of Dame Lionesse he was armed; and they hurtled together with great ire and malice all about the hall; and there was great light as it had been the number of twenty torches both before and behind, so that Sir Gareth strained him, so that his old wound brast again a-bleeding; but he was hot and courageous and took no keep, but with his great force he struck down that knight, and voided his helm, and struck off his head.†   (source)
  • Because he was of carpenteres craft,
    A little ire is in his hearte laft*; *left
    He gan to grudge* and blamed it a lite.†   (source)
  • Or if thou covet death, as utmost end
    Of misery, so thinking to evade
    The penalty pronounced; doubt not but God
    Hath wiselier armed his vengeful ire, than so
    To be forestalled; much more I fear lest death,
    So snatched, will not exempt us from the pain
    We are by doom to pay; rather, such acts
    Of contumacy will provoke the Highest
    To make death in us live: Then let us seek
    Some safer resolution, which methinks
    I have in view, calling to mind with heed
    Part of our sentence, that thy seed shall bruise
    The Serpent's head; piteous amends!†   (source)
  • Great triumph and rejoicing was in Heaven,
    When such was heard declared the Almighty's will;
    Glory they sung to the Most High, good will
    To future men, and in their dwellings peace;
    Glory to Him, whose just avenging ire
    Had driven out the ungodly from his sight
    And the habitations of the just; to Him
    Glory and praise, whose wisdom had ordained
    Good out of evil to create; instead
    Of Spirits malign, a better race to bring
    Into their vacant room, and thence diffuse
    His good to worlds and ages infinite.†   (source)
  • His bow he bent, and set therein a flo,* *arrow
    And in his ire he hath his wife slain;
    This is th' effect, there is no more to sayn.†   (source)
  • * *certainly
    O rakel* hand, to do so foul amiss *rash, hasty
    O troubled wit, O ire reckeless,
    That unadvised smit'st the guilteless!†   (source)
  • yet argument
    Not less but more heroick than the wrath
    Of stern Achilles on his foe pursued
    Thrice fugitive about Troy wall; or rage
    Of Turnus for Lavinia disespous'd;
    Or Neptune's ire, or Juno's, that so long
    Perplexed the Greek, and Cytherea's son:
    If answerable style I can obtain
    Of my celestial patroness, who deigns
    Her nightly visitation unimplor'd,
    And dictates to me slumbering; or inspires
    Easy my unpremeditated verse:
    Since first this subject for heroick song
    Pleas'd me long choosing, and beginnin†   (source)
  • Dextrously thou aimest;
    So willingly doth God remit his ire,
    Though late repenting him of Man depraved;
    Grieved at his heart, when looking down he saw
    The whole earth filled with violence, and all flesh
    Corrupting each their way; yet, those removed,
    Such grace shall one just man find in his sight,
    That he relents, not to blot out mankind;
    And makes a covenant never to destroy
    The eart†   (source)
  • *pure, only
    Ire is a sin, one of the greate seven,
    Abominable to the God of heaven,
    And to himself it is destruction.†   (source)
  • This fruit comes of the *bicched bones two,* *two cursed bones (dice)*
    Forswearing, ire, falseness, and homicide.†   (source)
  • And down anon he set him on his knee,
    The sick man waxed well-nigh wood* for ire, *mad
    He woulde that the friar had been a-fire
    With his false dissimulation.†   (source)
  • There is, y-wis,* no serpent so cruel, *certainly
    When men tread on his tail nor half so fell,* *fierce
    As woman is, when she hath caught an ire;
    Very* vengeance is then all her desire.†   (source)
  • *alike*
    And shortly, when his ire is thus agone,
    He gan to look on them with eyen light*, *gentle, lenient*
    And spake these same wordes *all on height.†   (source)
  • <18>
    Ye lie here full of anger and of ire,
    With which the devil sets your heart on fire,
    And chide here this holy innocent
    Your wife, that is so meek and patient.†   (source)
  • Who liv'd ever in such delight one day,
    That him not moved either conscience,
    Or ire, or talent, or *some kind affray,* *some kind of disturbance*
    Envy, or pride, or passion, or offence?†   (source)
  • Though that the fiend not in our sight him show,
    I trowe that he be with us, that shrew;* *impious wretch
    In helle, where that he is lord and sire,
    Is there no more woe, rancour, nor ire.†   (source)
  • Ire, or sickness, or constellation,* *the influence of
    Wine, woe, or changing of complexion, the planets*
    Causeth full oft to do amiss or speaken:
    On every wrong a man may not be wreaken.†   (source)
  • *believe
    Smite not too soon, ere that ye weete* why, *know
    And *be advised* well and sickerly** *consider* *surely
    Ere ye *do any execution *take any action
    Upon your ire* for suspicion.†   (source)
  • For of this root spring certain branches: as ire, envy, accidie <6> or sloth, avarice or covetousness (to common understanding), gluttony, and lechery: and each of these sins hath his branches and his twigs, as shall be declared in their chapters following.†   (source)
  • And with that word he fell down in a trance
    A longe time; and afterward upstart
    This Palamon, that thought thorough his heart
    He felt a cold sword suddenly to glide:
    For ire he quoke*, no longer would he hide.†   (source)
  • "Now, Thomas, leve* brother, leave thine ire, *dear
    Thou shalt me find as just as is as squire;
    Hold not the devil's knife aye at thine heaat;
    Thine anger doth thee all too sore smart;* *pain
    But shew to me all thy confession."†   (source)
  • *thrust
    Thou mightest weene*, that this Palamon *think
    In fighting were as a wood* lion, *mad
    And as a cruel tiger was Arcite:
    As wilde boars gan they together smite,
    That froth as white as foam, *for ire wood*.†   (source)
  • Three hundred foxes Sampson took for ire,
    And all their tailes he together band,
    And set the foxes' tailes all on fire,
    For he in every tail had knit a brand,
    And they burnt all the combs of that lend,
    And all their oliveres* and vines eke.†   (source)
  • For ye yourself upon yourself awreak;* *inflict
    Which proveth well, that either ire or dread* *fear
    Must be occasion of your cruel deed,
    Since that I see none other wight you chase:
    For love of God, as *do yourselfe grace;* *have mercy on
    Or what may be your help?†   (source)
  • And for that Nicanor and Timothee
    With Jewes were vanquish'd mightily, <21>
    Unto the Jewes such an hate had he,
    That he bade *graith his car* full hastily, *prepare his chariot*
    And swore and saide full dispiteously,
    Unto Jerusalem he would eftsoon,* *immediately
    To wreak his ire on it full cruelly
    But of his purpose was he let* full soon.†   (source)
  • That lord is now of Thebes the city,
    Fulfilled of ire and of iniquity,
    He for despite, and for his tyranny,
    To do the deade bodies villainy*, *insult
    Of all our lorde's, which that been y-slaw, *slain
    Hath all the bodies on an heap y-draw,
    And will not suffer them by none assent
    Neither to be y-buried, nor y-brent*, *burnt
    But maketh houndes eat them in despite.†   (source)
  • *thick as a tun (barrel)
    There saw I first the dark imagining
    Of felony, and all the compassing;
    The cruel ire, as red as any glede*, *live coal
    The picke-purse<45>, and eke the pale dread;
    The smiler with the knife under the cloak,
    The shepen* burning with the blacke smoke *stable <46>
    The treason of the murd'ring in the bed,
    The open war, with woundes all be-bled;
    Conteke* with bloody knife, and sharp menace.†   (source)
  • And on their bare knees adown they fall
    And would have kissed his feet there as he stood,
    Till at the last *aslaked was his mood* *his anger was
    (For pity runneth soon in gentle heart); appeased*
    And though at first for ire he quoke and start
    He hath consider'd shortly in a clause
    The trespass of them both, and eke the cause:
    And although that his ire their guilt accused
    Yet in his reason he them both excused;
    As thus; he thoughte well that every man
    Will help himself in love if that he can,
    And eke deliver himself out of prison.†   (source)
  • "O chaste goddess of the woodes green,
    To whom both heav'n and earth and sea is seen,
    Queen of the realm of Pluto dark and low,
    Goddess of maidens, that mine heart hast know
    Full many a year, and wost* what I desire, *knowest
    To keep me from the vengeance of thine ire,
    That Actaeon aboughte* cruelly: *earned; suffered from
    Chaste goddess, well wottest thou that I
    Desire to be a maiden all my life,
    Nor never will I be no love nor wife.†   (source)
  • And when these folk together assembled
    were, this Meliboeus in sorrowful wise showed them his case,
    and by the manner of his speech it seemed that in heart he bare
    a cruel ire, ready to do vengeance upon his foes, and suddenly
    desired that the war should begin, but nevertheless yet asked he
    their counsel in this matter.†   (source)
  • Anon, I wot not by what strong escape, He broke from those that had the guard of him; And, with his mad attendant and himself, Each one with ireful passion, with drawn swords, Met us again, and, madly bent on us, Chased us away; till, raising of more aid, We came again to bind them: then they fled Into this abbey, whither we pursued them: And here the abbess shuts the gates on us, And will not suffer us to fetch him out, Nor send him forth that we may bear him hence.†   (source)
  • They are the pendants of those "vicious", "bloodthirsty", "depraved" animals that inflame the ire of the maniacs I have just mentioned, who vent their spite on them with walking sticks and umbrellas.   (source)
    ire = anger
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  • "He was the oldest man in Ire," said Obierika.   (source)
    ire = the name of a village in this novel
  • Of course it was only 'ired for the occasion, you understand.   (source)
    ired = accented use of the word hired
  • "Ogbuefi Ndulue of Ire village," Okonkwo and Obierika said together.   (source)
    ire = the name of a village in this novel
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