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Her unjust accusation sparked his ire, and he responded with a sharp retort.ire = anger
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She has a way of arousing his ire.
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Escaping the ire of Sister Maria. (source)
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The bit about Israel used to draw the ire of Afghans in Fremont who accused him of being pro-Jewish and, de facto, anti Islam. (source)
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The subject of the monster's ire wasn't me but my dog, Casper, with whom I'd lost my temper earlier in the night. (source)
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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)
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Why endanger him or earn his ire at no benefit to ourselves? (source)ire = anger
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It makes me ireful to think o' them.† (source)
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'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)
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Drawing their ire when I'm so close to escaping would be unforgivably stupid. (source)
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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)
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Either they were really happy and grateful, or chose to literally blame the messenger, taking out their ire at the entire airline industry on us. (source)
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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)
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Forty-five minutes after raising the ire of the Honorable Reuben V. Atlee, Booker Sistrunk and Rufus Buckley, in matching county jail overalls, faded orange with white stripes on the legs, sat on the edges of their metal beds and looked at the black-stained and dripping toilet they were expected to share. (source)
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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)
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The bells were ringing in the dale And men looked up with faces pale; The dragon's ire more fierce than fire Laid low their towers and houses frail. (source)
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"He was the oldest man in Ire," said Obierika. (source)Ire = the name of a village in this novel
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Of course it was only 'ired for the occasion, you understand. (source)ired = accented use of the word hired
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"Ogbuefi Ndulue of Ire village," Okonkwo and Obierika said together. (source)Ire = the name of a village in this novel
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