carking

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

And no one who knows his freedom from all petty, carking feelings of every sort, such as envy and jealousy, can doubt for a moment that he did.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell

To free my heart from carking cares, From trusting aught to fleshly aid; To shew me sin’s seductive snares, That for unwary feet are laid.

From Hymns from the Morningland Being Translations, Centos and Suggestions from the Service Books of the Holy Eastern Church by Brownlie, John