carking
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of carking
Example Sentences
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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
To its gusts he could throw the heavy cares of the Presidency, to its rollers the carking complications of politics.
From Time Magazine Archive
He thought of the years of carking secrecy through which such things are dragged in England, and contrasted it with the neat despatch of the Yankee system.
From The Whirligig of Time by Williams, Wayland Wells
This particular letter proved the kind which annihilates all sense of separateness, save the animal heaviness of miles, and makes this last, extra carking and pitiless for the time.
From She Buildeth Her House by Comfort, William Wistar
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