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

"But—well, you have no creese, and you are not wild, nor—nor fierce, nor cruel."

From Nautilus by Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe

I went to the encyclopædia and found that the name of the knife was spelled kris and pronounced creese.

From Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines by Wildman, Rounsevelle