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
Inside their clothing each tucked a sharp-edged creese, also a loaded service revolver.
From Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines or, Following the Flag against the Moros by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
The gaily-colored breech-cloth wound about his loins supported his bolo and small knives, and in his tightly knotted long hair, glistened a creese.
From The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old by Florence Partello Stuart
Dom Maxara was forward, staunching a severe wound from a Malay creese in the shoulder.
From The Ruined Cities of Zululand by Hugh Mulleneux Walmsley
