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

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

As one well-fed dog is sure to be snarlish to a poorer brother—poor human nature—this currish principle is but too true when applied to us.

From The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns by Caruthers, William Alexander

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

Our ears are first assailed by a few shrill, currish barks at intervals, like the outpost firing of skirmishing parties.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles