currish

Example Sentences

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He dreads his departure with a trembling, currish fear; and I should hardly be doing good to him were I to force him to depart in a frame of mind so poor and piteous.

From The Fixed Period by Trollope, Anthony

True to his low, currish nature, he crept upon us unawares.

From Wolfville Days by Lewis, Alfred Henry

Let Aesop fable in a winter's night;     His currish riddle sorts not with this place.

From King Henry VI, Part 3 by Shakespeare, William

As one well-fed dog is sure to be snarlish to a poorer brother—poor human nature—this currish principle is but too true when applied to us.

From The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns by Caruthers, William Alexander

O people currish, churlish as their seas— He rejoices he leaves them, never to return till “rocks shall turn to rivers.”

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac