currish
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 Masefield, John
She practised the arts that breeders would use, who aimed at creating ferocious, currish, and stupid nature.
From Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Cohen, Chapman
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
