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1
The Accommodated Animal: Cosmopolity in Shakespearean Locales
No neutral designation, the English noun “cur” seems to derive from the
Germanic verb kurren, to growl.61 Currishness rejects courtesy. A cur turns; a cur
snarls and bares its teeth; it threatens to bite—it might even snatch “a pound of
man's ...
2
Rand-McNally Primary Grammar and Composition: Principles and ...
All the viciousness and currishness seem to have been weeded out of him; he
seldom quarrels, or fights, or plays, like other dogs. Two strange hounds, meeting
for the first time, behave as civilly toward each other as two men. * * * The hound
...
3
Finden's tableaux of the affections; a series of picturesque ...
Most noble Count, the currishness were mine, Rejecting thus the hope of a
career Beyond my merits, which, though I decline, I hold me bounden ever." " Nay
, I fear I was not quite unselfish ; my design Was one of mutual profit, fostering
here A ...
Mary Russell Mitford, 1839
4
Character writings of the seventeenth century
A Common Cruel Jailor Is a creature mistaken in the making, for he should be a
tiger ; but the shape being thought too terrible, it is covered, and he wears the
vizor of a man, yet retains the qualities of his former fierceness, currishness, and
...
5
An Analytical Dictionary of the English Language in which ...
He was not only of a worthless breed, but he was illtempered and of a morose
disposition; as is expressed by the words CURRISH, CURRISHLY, and
CURRISHNESS. It is from such ill-bred animals that we have many of our
expressions that ...
David BOOTH (Author of the Analytical Dictionary.), 1835
6
Mistress Wilding: A Romance
He had made handsome acknowledgment of a handsome apology, stung to it by
the currishness of Richard. And there the matter ended, despite Trenchard's
burning eagerness to carry it himself to a different consummation. Wilding
prevailed ...
7
Cassell's popular natural history
With his physical, his moral qualities improved. He lost his currishness, and,
when his patrons approached, expressed gratitude by licking their hands ; yet he
would never follow them beyond an imaginary limit either way, when he would
stop, ...
8
A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the ...
... in themselves they are for all time, and they were for Hurd's more than for
almost any other of which Time itself leaves record. Literary currishness and
literary cubbishness (an ignoble bat hardy and vivacious pair of brethren) have
not failed.
9
Birds and bees and other studies in nature
The hound is a most interesting dog. How solemn and long-visaged he is — how
peaceful and well-disposed ! He is the Quaker among dogs. All the vi- ciousness
and currishness seem to have been weeded out of him ; he seldom quarrels, ...
10
The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose of Sir Thomas ...
But the shape being thought too terrible, it is covered, and he wears the vizor of a
man ; yet retains the qualities of his former fierceness, currishness and ravening.
Of that red earth of which man was fashioned, this piece was the basest of the ...
Sir Thomas Overbury, 1756
