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

He read a line or two and gasped out that it was a forgery, and rang the bell again, and looked again behind the clock for his creese.

From Peter Ibbetson by Du Maurier, George

I rushed to the picture where I had hidden the creese, and threw it on the table.

From Peter Ibbetson by Du Maurier, George

Then whetting his brass-mounted creese to the keenest edge upon a smooth stone, he muttered a dread oath betwixt his clenched teeth, and strode moodily across the sandy plain.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis