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
I shall throw my creese into the air.
From The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old by Stuart, Florence Partello
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
With a keen-edged creese he cut the Flag loose, hurling it down to the ground.
From Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines or, Following the Flag against the Moros by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
