currish
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Our ears are first assailed by a few shrill, currish barks at intervals, like the outpost firing of skirmishing parties.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston
Let Aesop fable in a winter's night; His currish riddle sorts not with this place.
From King Henry VI, Part 3 by William Shakespeare
True to his low, currish nature, he crept upon us unawares.
From Wolfville Days by Alfred Henry Lewis
Great instances of fidelity, such as 'Gellert' or the 'Dog of Montargis', both of which are Eastern and primeval, have scarcely redeemed the cringing currish nature of the race in general from disgrace.
From Popular Tales from the Norse by George Webbe Dasent
Such rival Leos flourish, And mutual hatred nourish, With a snapping almost currish, upon Afric's shore.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 2, 1891 by Various
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