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 Cullum, Ridgwell

The last sort of dogs consisteth of the currish kind meet for many toys, of which the whappet or prick-eared cur is one.

From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed

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 Kingston, William Henry Giles

Thus oft we see a currish, Mungrel Crew, A stately Mastiff eagerly pursue.

From Two Poems Against Pope One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope and the Blatant Beast by Guerinot, J. V. (Joseph V.)

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 Paget, Walter