Rushton was supposed to have given him a job in the hope of currying favour with his wealthy client, from whom he hoped to obtain more work.
What Misery did not know about scamping and faking the work, the men suggested to and showed him in the hope of currying favour with him in order that they might get the preference over others and be sent for when the next job came in.
The grooms went on currying their horses, the cook went on slapping the kitchen boy, and the servants began to serve the supper.
Some of the gentlemen were bowing to the ladies, the ladies were embroidering, the grooms stood currying their horses, and the cook was slapping the kitchen boy.
Suppose sometime when you were with your overalls on, currying horses, a pretty girl comes along the street, guess you'd run up in the loft and hide, eh?
He thinks more of allaying the anxiety of his wife than of currying favor with his ruler.
Currying consists of working oil and grease into the leather to render it pliable and increase its strength.
Currying with animal oils is a second tannage in itself; the oils oxidize in the fibres and produce aldehydes, which are well-known tanning agents; and this double tannage renders the leather very strong.
Indeed, there was nothing harsh or overbearing in the pride of Nikias, which arose chiefly from his fear of being thought to be currying favour with the people.
It was little like the curryingand rubbing with brush and comb and flannel to which he was accustomed and which he needed just then, oh, how sadly.
The change from cracking ice from a ship's deck with a marlinespike, to curryingand feeding something alive and warm and comfortable, was so delightful to the Swede that he had given up the sea for a while.
An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb.
A kind of card or comb having rows of metallic teeth or serrated ridges, used in currying a horse.
He enjoys currying as much as a horse or a cow, and would be as careful of his litter as a cat if he had a fair chance.
If men will give as much care to their own skin, as they give to currying a horse, they will gain both health and wealth.
I have discouraged most of the boys who wanted to run away and go with the show, by giving them a curry comb and brush and telling them they could have a permanent job currying off the hyenas.
Currying leather on the hair or grain side, termed black on the grain, is the same in the first operation with that drest on the flesh, till it is scoured.
And when he had said this, he looked around him, and there was a feeble titter of approbation from two or three of the craven crew, who were in the habit of currying favour with the coachmen.
Haven't you been for years past bullying and insulting everybody whom you deemed weak, and currying favour with everybody whom you thought strong?
This job being finished, all sat down to watch Lucien currying his hide.
Their scraping or curryingknives are made from the split shin-bones.
Haven't you been for years past bullying and insulting everybody whom you deemed weak, and currying favour with everybody whom ye thought strong?
Other people would say so, and would allege that he was currying favor with Bulstrode for the sake of making himself important and getting on in the world.
What business has an old county man to come currying favor with a low set of dark-blue freemen?
Of course, it is well known to the currying trade, having for several centuries formed the basis, together with cod oil, of the dubbin used in stuffing waxed leather and belting butts.
As in the case of sole leather, belting may be artificially weighted during the tannage, although it is usually done in the currying process, if at all.
The tanning and currying of harness and saddlery leathers is another special branch.
If you watch a groom brushing and currying the coat of a thoroughbred horse, you will get a fair idea of hew you ought to treat your own scalp at least twice a day, night and morning.
There is no objection to boys' and men's wetting their hair in cold water as often as they wish, provided that they rub it thoroughly dry afterward and give it a brisk currying with the brush.
Courtesy is called colloguing and currying of favour; downright honesty and plain-dealing is interpreted to be pride and ill manners.
Every owner wishes to see his animals with glossy, shining coats, and so bad grooms, to save the trouble of currying and brushing, will rub the horse over with a cloth, dipped in kerosene.
After one good currying with this device the nag is ready for harness, his coat sleek, shiny, and, above all, clean.
Currying a horse is quite hard work, and lazy grooms do not like to do it, and so they have invented a means of shirking the brushing which is very unkind to the horse.
The currycomb and brush prevents this wicked practice, by making the cleaning of the horse so easy that it is not worth the laziest man's while to oil the horse instead of currying him.
He writes to please himself, and has no thought of currying favour with an audience, whether intellectual or idiotic.
The moment a playwright confines his work within the two or three hours' limit prescribed by Western custom for a theatrical performance, he is currying favour with an audience.
And the coachman went ahead currying the sleek-looking Ajax II, who whinnied with pleasure as the currycomb slid over his glossy brown coat.
Here I hid myself in one of the horses' stalls, and Holmes walked into another one, where he found fat little Olaf Yensen, the first coachman, currying one of the noble steeds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "currying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
