currish

Example Sentences

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Were you one of this currish crew?"—pride pursed his lip,   As firm as bandog's, brought the bull to bay—   While answered he: "I fought with others.

From Poems by Hugo, Victor

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

It is a currish thing to look upon death in battle or by hara-kiri as a pollution: this is a thing to bear in mind.

From Tales of Old Japan by Redesdale, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Baron

His face was unhealthy and currish, the eyes were malicious, and above his ears were combed two large tufts of glossy hair.

From The Shadow of the Cathedral by Gillespie, Mrs. W. A.

Thus oft we see a currish, Mungrel Crew, A stately Mastiff eagerly pursue.

From Two Poems Against Pope One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope and the Blatant Beast by Guerinot, J. V. (Joseph V.)