currish

Example Sentences

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Then the currish way in which he took his licking added to the sport.

From For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War by Paget, Walter

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

"Of a dog; currish," is the definition which we get from Johnson,—quite correctly, and in accordance with its etymology.

From Thackeray by Trollope, Anthony

I miss animal life sadly in these parts: the dogs I see about the streets are few in number, and miserably currish specimens of their kind.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various

Thus oft we see a currish, Mungrel Crew, A stately Mastiff eagerly pursue.

From Two Poems Against Pope One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope and the Blatant Beast by Guerinot, J. V. (Joseph V.)