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
Within a week carking, though praiseworthy, care would return, and you would be asking yourself, "What shall it be next?"
From Search-Light Letters by Grant, Robert
He was thinking of the scorn that had been in her voice when she had told him of the fierce impulse that had bidden her escape from the bondage of carking poverty and care.
From The Peace of Roaring River by Koerner, W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef)
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