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

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

From Nautilus by Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe

She had caught up an old Malay creese that lay in a corner, and was now making for the door, at which half a dozen domestics were by this time gathered.

From The Portent & Other Stories by MacDonald, 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)