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

I saw a Malay creese on the mantel-piece and hid it behind a picture-frame.

From Peter Ibbetson by Du Maurier, George

Taking a long breath, he grabbed his creese and dived.

From The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old by Stuart, Florence Partello

In days gone by the youth Boorhán had been saved under the creese by the son of Yemen, and gratitude, rarely found in the savage, now paid her outstanding debt.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis