currish

Example Sentences

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I miss animal life sadly in these parts: the dogs I see about the streets are few in number, and miserably currish specimens of their kind.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various

All ferocity suddenly died out, leaving only alarm, a desperate, currish terror.

From The Way of the Strong by Cullum, Ridgwell

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

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

There was no craven slinking, there were no currish snarls.

From The Way of the Strong by Cullum, Ridgwell