carking

Example Sentences

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

He was thinking of the scorn that had been in her voice when she had told him of the fierce impulse that had bidden her escape from the bondage of carking poverty and care.

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

Both men were quiet and distrait,—Peter because he was anxious, Graham for the reason that he had not been able to leave behind him the carking worries that now fell daily to his lot.

From The Sins of the Children A Novel by Hamilton, Cosmo