carking

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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

For we are the Lords of Ease, The gaolers of carking Care, The Guild of Go-as-you-Please!

From The Dragon of Wantley His Tale by Stewardson, John

He lives in the past or the future, and his mind can with difficulty be brought to condescend to the carking cares of the present—perhaps not even to its quiet daily life.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various