carking
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of carking
Example Sentences
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In Germany itself those prisoners who have returned found only more carking cares.
From Time Magazine Archive
To its gusts he could throw the heavy cares of the Presidency, to its rollers the carking complications of politics.
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
I was clear beyond all that now—all those occasions for carking anxiety which deprave the worker, and make him hate the task to which whipping necessity drives him.
From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)
For we are the Lords of Ease, The gaolers of carking Care, The Guild of Go-as-you-Please!
From The Dragon of Wantley His Tale by Stewardson, John
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