currish
Example Sentences
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Let Aesop fable in a winter's night; His currish riddle sorts not with this place.
From King Henry VI, Part 3 by William Shakespeare
All ferocity suddenly died out, leaving only alarm, a desperate, currish terror.
From The Way of the Strong by Ridgwell Cullum
It seems a currish fate that puts such men into the grasp of paltry and sordid cares like these!
From A Study of Hawthorne by George Parsons Lathrop
He dreads his departure with a trembling, currish fear; and I should hardly be doing good to him were I to force him to depart in a frame of mind so poor and piteous.
From The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope
There are faces which, in their usual form, seem to bluster with prosperity, but which the loss of a dozen points at whist will reduce to that currish aspect which reminds one of a dog-whip.
From The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
