creese

Example Sentences

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Colonel Ishimoto, without asking permission, drew out the creese and waved it about.

From Time Magazine Archive

The creese is more than a sword to the Javanese; it is a sacred symbol, and if it is drawn rashly and without preliminary invocations, Javanese believe that misfortune overtakes the rash drawer.

From Time Magazine Archive

He read a line or two and gasped out that it was a forgery, and rang the bell again, and looked again behind the clock for his creese.

From Peter Ibbetson by Du Maurier, George

And yet at no time had Senator Hanway—and himself the master of every art of cord and creese in politics—felt more helpless.

From The President A novel by Lewis, Alfred Henry

Then he yawned—next placed the creese on the ground beside him, while his right hand explored his pockets.

From Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines or, Following the Flag against the Moros by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)