cark

How To Use cark In A Sentence

• I watch the flowery stars which frighten me; * While cark and care mine every night foreslow. Arabian nights. English
• (In later editions, _carking cares_ was substituted for _kiaugh_ and _care_.) [17.] Selections from Five English Poets
• Apparently, one of the master Scientists was trying to cark Scutari blastulas into a shape more to his liking. THE BROKEN GOD
• But before he could really get out of the starting blocks, old Stanley went and carked it.
• To my fellow bloggers, what would you do if your PC carked it, would you have withdrawal symptoms because you could not come online to say G'day and share with us a snapshot of your day?
• She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the ship sped on her course, Kamar al-Zaman returned to the garden in cark and care; but — anon he rented the place of its owner and hired a man to help him in irrigating the trees. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• The gums were full of budgies, skawking and whistling their parodies of songbirds; finches wheeled from branch to branch; two sulphur-crested cockatoos sat with their heads to one side watching her progress with twinkling eyes; willy-wagtails fossicked in the dirt for ants, their absurd rumps bobbing; crows carked eternally and mournfully. The Thorn Birds
• [142] In a severe reprimand addressed to Captain Carkett, commanding the leading ship of the English line, by Rodney, he says: "Your leading in the manner you did, induced others to follow so bad an example; and thereby, forgetting that the signal for the line was at only two cables 'length distance from each other, the van division was led by you to _more than two leagues distance_ from the centre division, which was thereby exposed to the greatest strength of the enemy and not properly supported" (Life, vol.i. p. 351). The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
• Does a 'his weary kiaugh and care beguile, Does all his weary cark (fret) and care beguile. Selections from Five English Poets
• Sorry to meatjack, but I have never run across "cark" before. Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz