currish
Example Sentences
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Our ears are first assailed by a few shrill, currish barks at intervals, like the outpost firing of skirmishing parties.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston
Great instances of fidelity, such as 'Gellert' or the 'Dog of Montargis', both of which are Eastern and primeval, have scarcely redeemed the cringing currish nature of the race in general from disgrace.
From Popular Tales from the Norse by George Webbe Dasent
Timon, the great-natured, truly generous man, whose mind is as beneficial as the sun, cannot be currish, nor stoop to the baseness of revenge.
From William Shakespeare by John Masefield
Such rival Leos flourish, And mutual hatred nourish, With a snapping almost currish, upon Afric's shore.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 2, 1891 by Various
But now the case is otherwise, now he is in another frame, now his proud, stout, currish carriage, is come down; 'And he cried.'
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan
