currish

Example Sentences

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Were you one of this currish crew?"—pride pursed his lip,   As firm as bandog's, brought the bull to bay—   While answered he: "I fought with others.

From Poems by Hugo, Victor

Such an exhibition of currish cowardice and sullen bullying spite increases rather our wondering pity for its victim than our wondering sense of her degradation. 

From A Study of Shakespeare by Gosse, Edmund

No man can serve two masters, and though to be the victim of the rival ambitions of greater men than yourself is no uncommon fate, it is a currish one.

From In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays by Birrell, Augustine

As one well-fed dog is sure to be snarlish to a poorer brother—poor human nature—this currish principle is but too true when applied to us.

From The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns by Caruthers, William Alexander

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 Trollope, Anthony