currish
Example Sentences
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All ferocity suddenly died out, leaving only alarm, a desperate, currish terror.
From The Way of the Strong by Ridgwell Cullum
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
In a moment I was beside her, riding bare-back, with Maisie clasping my waist, as indeed we had often ridden before—though never so perilously, nor yet with such a currish retinue yowling at our tail.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
There was no craven slinking, there were no currish snarls.
From The Way of the Strong by Ridgwell Cullum
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
