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

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

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

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

From The Way of the Strong by Cullum, Ridgwell

No man can serve two masters, and though to be the victim of the rival ambitions of greater men than yourself is no uncommon fate, it is a currish one.

From In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays by Birrell, Augustine