carking

Example Sentences

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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

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 thought of the years of carking secrecy through which such things are dragged in England, and contrasted it with the neat despatch of the Yankee system.

From The Whirligig of Time by Williams, Wayland Wells

All were in the pink of health, free from all carking cares and vanities of life, and they sang as if inspired.

From Doctor Jones' Picnic by Chapman, S. E. (Samuel E.)