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carking

[kahr-king] / ˈkɑr kɪŋ /


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Precedence and protocol were a constant, carking care to Queen Victoria's stiffly sensitive and none-too-popular Prince Albert, who complained that he was "only a husband and not the master in the house."

From Time Magazine Archive

To its gusts he could throw the heavy cares of the Presidency, to its rollers the carking complications of politics.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Germany itself those prisoners who have returned found only more carking cares.

From Time Magazine Archive

All were in the pink of health, free from all carking cares and vanities of life, and they sang as if inspired.

From Doctor Jones' Picnic by S. E. (Samuel E.) Chapman

Nay, they made honest profession that their mission was to destroy other people's, and do without carking domesticity, as that detracted from the merit of preparation for paradise.

From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Bennet Burleigh




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