carking

Example Sentences

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

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

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

Surely her fitting place was in the fragrant earth, sheltered by waving grass from carking cares.

From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis

What, do the mighty ones then bear Their load of carking grief and care?

From Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) by Gay, John