currish
Example Sentences
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It seems a currish fate that puts such men into the grasp of paltry and sordid cares like these!
From A Study of Hawthorne by Lathrop, George Parsons
But now the case is otherwise, now he is in another frame, now his proud, stout, currish carriage, is come down; 'And he cried.'
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by Bunyan, John
The last sort of dogs consisteth of the currish kind meet for many toys, of which the whappet or prick-eared cur is one.
From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed
In spite of all these Roman basilisks, That seek to quell us with their currish looks, We will to Pontus: we'll have gold, my hearts; Those oriental pearls shall deck our brows.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various
At the manor-house steps he found at last sufficient grace to say: "It was a currish thing to do; will you forgive me, Ardea?"
From The Quickening by Ashe, E. M.
