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In our own day certain ways of thinking, culminating in development of the Moi and production of the Uebermensch, and general self-engrossment and currishness, are peculiarly hostile to courtship.

From Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life by Lee, Vernon

Notwithstanding his currishness and the cowardly ferocity which comes out with the night, there is something definite about him.

From The Wolf's Long Howl by Waterloo, Stanley

He had made handsome acknowledgment of a handsome apology, stung to it by the currishness of Richard.

From Mistress Wilding by Sabatini, Rafael