| 1H6 IV.vi.16 | [Talbot to John Talbot] The ireful Bastard Orleans ... I soon encountered |
| 3H6 II.i.57 | [Messenger to Richard and Edward, of York] slaughtered by the ireful arm / Of unrelenting Clifford and the Queen |
| 3H6 II.v.132 | [Queen to King, of Edward and Richard] bloody steel grasped in their ireful hands |
| CE V.i.151 | [Adriana to Duke, of Antipholus and Dromio] Each one with ireful passion |
| Ven.628 | [Venus to Adonis, of a boar] Being ireful, on the lion he will venter |