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
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
In Germany itself those prisoners who have returned found only more carking cares.
From Time Magazine Archive
All were in the pink of health, free from all carking cares and vanities of life, and they sang as if inspired.
From Doctor Jones' Picnic by Chapman, S. E. (Samuel E.)
A self-supporting Britain, free from this carking fear, would become once more a liberalising power.
From Another Sheaf by Galsworthy, John
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