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

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 Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)

With a keen-edged creese he cut the Flag loose, hurling it down to the ground.

From Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines or, Following the Flag against the Moros by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)

Taking a long breath, he grabbed his creese and dived.

From The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old by Stuart, Florence Partello