currish

Example Sentences

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

From The Way of the Strong by Cullum, Ridgwell

He dreads his departure with a trembling, currish fear; and I should hardly be doing good to him were I to force him to depart in a frame of mind so poor and piteous.

From The Fixed Period by Trollope, Anthony

His face was unhealthy and currish, the eyes were malicious, and above his ears were combed two large tufts of glossy hair.

From The Shadow of the Cathedral by Gillespie, Mrs. W. A.

Timon, the great-natured, truly generous man, whose mind is as beneficial as the sun, cannot be currish, nor stoop to the baseness of revenge.

From William Shakespeare by Masefield, John

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)