creese
Example Sentences
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The creese is more than a sword to the Javanese; it is a sacred symbol, and if it is drawn rashly and without preliminary invocations, Javanese believe that misfortune overtakes the rash drawer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Colonel Ishimoto, without asking permission, drew out the creese and waved it about.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like lightning the Army boy reached for the creese, and the finish of that general movement found Sergeant Hal Overton sitting up and aiming a desperate slash at the cord about his ankles.
From Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines or, Following the Flag against the Moros by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
"It looks some grim," Sergeant Terry admitted, wrapping his left hand where a creese had made a gash.
From Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines or, Following the Flag against the Moros by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
"But—well, you have no creese, and you are not wild, nor—nor fierce, nor cruel."
From Nautilus by Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe
