currish

Example Sentences

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Then the currish way in which he took his licking added to the sport.

From For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War by Paget, Walter

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

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

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

From The Way of the Strong by Cullum, Ridgwell

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