carking

Example Sentences

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To its gusts he could throw the heavy cares of the Presidency, to its rollers the carking complications of politics.

From Time Magazine Archive

Precedence and protocol were a constant, carking care to Queen Victoria's stiffly sensitive and none-too-popular Prince Albert, who complained that he was "only a husband and not the master in the house."

From Time Magazine Archive

In Germany itself those prisoners who have returned found only more carking cares.

From Time Magazine Archive

This particular letter proved the kind which annihilates all sense of separateness, save the animal heaviness of miles, and makes this last, extra carking and pitiless for the time.

From She Buildeth Her House by Comfort, William Wistar

She has fallen asleep there, as she so often does, for youth and health defy carking cares.

From Floyd Grandon's Honor by Douglas, Amanda Minnie