carking

Example Sentences

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"You mean," said Bellew, becoming suddenly thoughtful, "that you are haunted by the Carking Spectre of the—er Might Have Been?"

From The Money Moon A Romance by Farnol, Jeffery

Carking self-contempt must be trusted to do the business for him in the end.

From The Eye of Zeitoon by Mundy, Talbot

Winner, who had not greatly striven, Hurts of sin shall not thee soil, Carking care thy beauty spoil.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Ingelow, Jean