cark

• The official line in buying energy - and water-efficient household appliances has long been to replace old whitegoods with better versions only when the relics cark it. —  xml's Blinklist.com
• Then Habib and his many turned away from home and addressed them to the road when he began to improvise the following lines My longing grows less and far goes my cark * After flamed my heart with the love-fire stark; As I ride to search for my soul's desire * And I ask of those faring to Al-Irбk On this wise it befel the Sultan Habib and his farewelling his father and mother; but now lend ear to what came of the knights who escorted him. —  Arabian nights. English
• Then she returned home, cark-full and care-full, and when her husband saw her in this condition, he questioned her of her case and she said to him, "Verily, my breast is harrowed by reason of thee and of the very goodness of thine intent," presently adding, "Narrow means suit me not and thou in thy present craft gainest naught; so either do thou seek out a business other than this or pay me my rightful due[FN#434] and let me wend my ways." —  Arabian nights. English
• My longing grows less and far goes my cark * After flamed my heart with the love-fire stark; —  Arabian nights. English
• Ho thou who wouldst vaunt thee of cark and care; * How many love-molten, tryst-craving be there? —  Arabian nights. English

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