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Then the currish way in which he took his licking added to the sport.

From For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War by Walter Paget

It is a currish thing to look upon death in battle or by hara-kiri as a pollution: this is a thing to bear in mind.

From Tales of Old Japan by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Baron Redesdale

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

But now the case is otherwise, now he is in another frame, now his proud, stout, currish carriage, is come down; 'And he cried.'

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

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