currish

Example Sentences

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Why should you stand between me and my rights in this currish way?

From Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers by Anstey, F.

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)

No man can serve two masters, and though to be the victim of the rival ambitions of greater men than yourself is no uncommon fate, it is a currish one.

From In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays by Birrell, Augustine

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

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