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
Both men were quiet and distrait,—Peter because he was anxious, Graham for the reason that he had not been able to leave behind him the carking worries that now fell daily to his lot.
From The Sins of the Children A Novel by Hamilton, Cosmo
And no one who knows his freedom from all petty, carking feelings of every sort, such as envy and jealousy, can doubt for a moment that he did.
From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell
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