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

At this moment, as in a flash, all of her vague and carking fears returned to the girl, and her hand went to her breast.

From The Peace of Roaring River by Koerner, W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef)

A self-supporting Britain, free from this carking fear, would become once more a liberalising power.

From Another Sheaf by Galsworthy, John