And she was far less cursed with "nerves," with feverish unrest and carking discontent, than women are to-day.
But from the material standpoint, the onus of support which falls on him, and which, in the case of an invalided or of an obnoxious wife, may prove nothing but a carking care, makes the liabilities unequal.
In another lecture we shall see how in morbid melancholy this sense of the unreality of things may become a carking pain, and even lead to suicide.
It was not to be wondered at, therefore, that the sorely pestered Mr. Rosen should be at this time a prey to care so carking as to border on forthright melancholia.
What, do the mighty ones then bear Their load of carking grief and care?
Now and then he threw a displeased glance at his pretty cousin, marvelling for whose behoof she had made herself so bewitching, and then, gnawed by carking jealousy, turned to vent his spleen upon his servant.
Disappointment and sorrow, and the small, carking cares of daily life, had washed away the pretty bloom from her cheeks, and had sharpened the lines of her face.
Solitude would be infinitely preferable to the small carking cares and frets of his daily life.
Many a one, battling for very existence with the world's carking cares, wails out a vain wish that he had been taken from the evil to come.
If it does come, it brings at least one recompense: the humiliation and the trouble, the bitter pain and the carking care are escaped from, left behind for ever in the cruel world.
The world's carking cares had surely done their work on Maria Godolphin!
When that hearty, honest farmer went forth, he would have been willing to testify that, of carking care, George possessed none.
She had little carking anxieties; a curious fatefulness seemed to rule her, and she experienced a mournful want of some one to confide in.
That night carking care sat beside Melbury's pillow, and his stiff limbs tossed at its presence.
The sense of her harassment, carking doubt of what might be impending, hung like a cowl of blackness over the Melbury household.
He was thinking of the scorn that had been in her voice when she had told him of the fierce impulse that had bidden her escape from the bondage of carking poverty and care.
At this moment, as in a flash, all of her vague and carking fears returned to the girl, and her hand went to her breast.
She met a policeman who was swinging his club, and the man gave her an instant of carking fear.
There is blight, and nervous irritation, and "carking anxiety," if the child works under compulsion at the dead matter of study.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
