currish

Example Sentences

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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

Such an exhibition of currish cowardice and sullen bullying spite increases rather our wondering pity for its victim than our wondering sense of her degradation. 

From A Study of Shakespeare by Gosse, Edmund

There are faces which, in their usual form, seem to bluster with prosperity, but which the loss of a dozen points at whist will reduce to that currish aspect which reminds one of a dog-whip.

From The Eustace Diamonds by Trollope, Anthony

In a moment I was beside her, riding bare-back, with Maisie clasping my waist, as indeed we had often ridden before—though never so perilously, nor yet with such a currish retinue yowling at our tail.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

In spite of all these Roman basilisks, That seek to quell us with their currish looks, We will to Pontus: we'll have gold, my hearts; Those oriental pearls shall deck our brows.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various