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Examples

  • Mary Craik is your only present stay; kiss her for me, dear, kind, good girl.

    Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

  • Mike Craik is also against ‘bonuses’ being paid to police officers for ‘doing their job’, although he didn’t mind when he got a £47,000 bonus that he shared with his colleagues.

    Dad Is Back (for the moment) - By Chuck Gadget « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • A little fellow, called Craik and nicknamed Belfast, abused the ship violently, romancing on principle, just to give the new hands something to think over.

    The Nigger of the Narcissus 1897

  • Morison scoffs at the suggestion that Jones was a bastard and calls Craik “an amiable gentleman,” Morison, pp.

    John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

  • Morison scoffs at the suggestion that Jones was a bastard and calls Craik “an amiable gentleman,” Morison, pp.

    John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

  • 'Craik's right, Mrs Lawford; it's not a bit of good waiting.

    The Return Walter De la Mare 1914

  • "Craik," to complain: great complainers wish to make others believe that their own lot is a very hard one.

    The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836

  • Many of the wounded were too weak to move, so the colonel left Dr. Craik and eleven able men to guard them and the goods until later retrieved; the Indians plundered the cache once the Virginians were out of sight.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • There was not even a surgeon on hand until James Craik arrived on the 20th, having left many sick behind at Raystown and Fort Cumberland.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • On the 25th, hearing that Washington was no better since getting home, his physician Dr. James Craik warned him that he needed a long rest away from public affairs.66

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

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