currish

Example Sentences

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Then I saw a thousand faces made currish by the cold, whence shuddering comes to me, and will always come, at frozen pools.

From Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Hell by Norton, Charles Eliot

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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

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

Let Aesop fable in a winter's night; His currish riddle sorts not with this place.

From King Henry VI, Part 3 by Shakespeare, William

True to his low, currish nature, he crept upon us unawares.

From Wolfville Days by Lewis, Alfred Henry