creese

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Inside their clothing each tucked a sharp-edged creese, also a loaded service revolver.

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

What a neat hand he was, too, with that spiral-bladed Malay creese of his!

From Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life by Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)

A magician with a sword—with a great, evil, written-upon creese like that hanging at Black Hill—was here before the palace.

From Foes by Johnston, Mary