carking
Example Sentences
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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
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
Go, rose, and lie On Chloë's bosom, and be there caressed; For there would I, Like to a turtle-dove, aye flee to nest From jealousy And carking care, by which I am opprest.
From Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) by John Gay
He was thinking of the scorn that had been in her voice when she had told him of the fierce impulse that had bidden her escape from the bondage of carking poverty and care.
From The Peace of Roaring River by W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef) Koerner
