creese
Example Sentences
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Colonel Ishimoto, without asking permission, drew out the creese and waved it about.
From Time Magazine Archive
The creese is more than a sword to the Javanese; it is a sacred symbol, and if it is drawn rashly and without preliminary invocations, Javanese believe that misfortune overtakes the rash drawer.
From Time Magazine Archive
I rushed to the picture where I had hidden the creese, and threw it on the table.
From Peter Ibbetson by George Du Maurier
What a neat hand he was, too, with that spiral-bladed Malay creese of his!
From Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise
I shall throw my creese into the air.
From The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old by Florence Partello Stuart
