carking
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of carking
Example Sentences
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To its gusts he could throw the heavy cares of the Presidency, to its rollers the carking complications of politics.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Germany itself those prisoners who have returned found only more carking cares.
From Time Magazine Archive
Precedence and protocol were a constant, carking care to Queen Victoria's stiffly sensitive and none-too-popular Prince Albert, who complained that he was "only a husband and not the master in the house."
From Time Magazine Archive
He had never dared to voice the carking fear that tightened about his heart at times.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
She met a policeman who was swinging his club, and the man gave her an instant of carking fear.
From The Peace of Roaring River by W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef) Koerner
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