currish
Example Sentences
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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 J. V. (Joseph V.) Guerinot
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
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
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
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
