currish
Example Sentences
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As one well-fed dog is sure to be snarlish to a poorer brother—poor human nature—this currish principle is but too true when applied to us.
From The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns by William Alexander Caruthers
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
Were you one of this currish crew?"—pride pursed his lip, As firm as bandog's, brought the bull to bay— While answered he: "I fought with others.
From Poems by Victor Hugo
Such an exhibition of currish cowardice and sullen bullying spite increases rather our wondering pity for its victim than our wondering sense of her degradation.
From A Study of Shakespeare by Edmund Gosse
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 Anthony Trollope
