currish

Example Sentences

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Then I saw a thousand faces made currish by the cold, whence shuddering comes to me, and will always come, at frozen pools.

From Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Hell by Norton, Charles Eliot

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

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

From Wolfville Days by Lewis, Alfred Henry

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