Then I went round about the third day till the hour of mid-afternoon prayer, and sore waxed my cark and my care for I kenned that there remained to me of my life but the morrow, when the Chief of Police would send for me.
Thou art swayed by the spy to my cark and care: * No marvel an branchlet sway here and there!
I bear, * And suffer the like of thy cark and thy care Yet hide I from man what I suffer for pine; * Hide it too, and such secret to man never bare!
So he went back to whence he came heavy-hearted with whirling head; and neither would he address a soul nor return a reply; and reaching the garden and sitting down in cark and care he threw dust on his head and buffeted his cheeks.
God, who hath done away my cark and care by means of you being near!
And he abode all his day sunken in the sea of cark and care neither eating nor drinking.
When cark and care so heavy bear on youth[FN#112] of generous soul * How shall he 'scape his lot and where from Fate his place of flight?
Now on that day she said to her father, "Why do I see thee thus changed and laden with cark and care?
When I heard her verse, carkincreased and care redoubled on me and I fell down in a corner of our house; whereupon she arose in haste and, coming to me, lifted me up and took off my outer clothes and wiped my face with her sleeve.
Doomed us despite our will to bear ✿ The hands of base-borns cark and care.
And she went on to comfort me; but my cark and care ceased not to increase on me.
I watch the flowery stars which frighten me; * While cark and care mine every night foreslow.
Would Heaven I knew if God will ever deign to join * Our lives, and from our cark and care and grief set free!
So he rose up and went out and threaded the streets awhile, but only increased in cark and care.
Rejoined the Minister Faris, "O King of the Age, I am older than thou by an hundred years yet have I never been blest with boon of child and cease not day and night from cark and care and concern; so how shall we do, I and thou?
So he abode in cark and care and chagrin from morn to night and from night to morn.
Thou hast my full permission to hie thee home, but forget not at least once a month to come and see me even as now thou dost, lest such forgetfulness cause me anxiety and trouble, cark and care.
Now this was at fall of night yet one look enabled him to recognise his home; whereby his cark and care were cleared away and he recovered trust in Allah after cutting off all his hope to look upon his wife once more.
When cark and care so heavy bear on youth[112] of generous soul ✿ How shall he 'scape his lot and where from Fate his place of flight?
The symptoms are false appetite and great mental disquiet and cark and care; and it behoveth that it be evacuated, else it will generate melancholia[FN#402] and leprosy and cancer and disease of the spleen and ulceration of the bowels.
What pathway find I my desire t'obtain, * How 'scape from care and cark and pain and bane?
Arsenic 's the stuff puts force into the faint eyes, Opium sets the brain to rights--by cark and care deranged.
Greed and strife, Hatred and cark and care, what place have they In yon blue liberality of heaven?
When I heard her verse, cark increased and care redoubled on me and I fell down in a corner of our house; whereupon she arose in haste and, coming to me lifted me up and took off my outer clothes and wiped my face with her sleeve.
Doomed us despite our will to bear * The hands of base bores cark and care.
Hereupon the King cast aside all cark and care and robed the wizards and dismissed them with splendid honoraria; and he resigned himself to the will of Heaven and acknowledged that the decrees of destiny may not be countervailed.
Then he went on, till he came to some people sitting at play of forfeits and sat down with them, to divert his cark and care.
Wherefor he was full of cark and care wanting one who after him would preserve his memory, so he said in his mind one night of the nights, 'Whenas I die cut off shall be my name, and effaced shall be my fame nor shall anyone remember me.
Verily the Sultan and all the Lords of his land are in sore cark and care for the affair of his daughter, the Princess.
As soon as it was morning the twain farewelled each other and either of them went his own way; but, the Khwajah fell into cark and care such as cannot be conceived, and he fasted from food nor was meat to him sweet nor was sleep.
FN#110] Now when Al-Rashid heard the tale of Ibn Mansur there fell from him somewhat of hiscark and care but he was not wholly comforted.
Then befel him the extreme of grief and straitness of breast and he passed that night in exceeding cark and care for Kut al-Kulub.
Accordingly they fared forth and acquainted the young King who held the matter grievous and was overridden by cark and care: however he said to them, "If there must perforce be fighting and killing, I have treasures sufficient to levy a host.
Well, to be plain, out of the Stewart cark and moil!
Depart, therefore, forthright and add not cark to my cark and care to my care, neither do thou pretend to rescue me from this my plight; for who shall carry me to thy country through all these vales and thirsty wolds and fatal steads?
And she went on to complain to him of the misery of separation and to pour forth copious tears, saying, "Hadst thou but a companion with thee, my heart had not borne all this cark and care for thee.
So burden not thy soul with cark and care, O my lady, for of a certainty this is the cause of his absence from thee last night and I will abide with thee this coming night and comfort thee, until thy lord return to thee.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cark" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
