"Cark" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... my sails spread wide, And cleave like an eagle life's glassy tide; Gulls follow my furrow's foaming; Overboard with the ballast of care and cark; And what if I shatter my roaming bark, It is ...
— Love's Comedy • Henrik Ibsen
... "Grief, cark and care in my heart reside, * And the fires of love in my breast My wasted form to all eyes shows clear; * For Desire ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton
... des Exiles, no more the deadly tedium of daily service at the desk of the caisse, no more the shrewish tongue of Mama Therese, the odious oglings of Papa Dupont, the ceaseless cark of discontent.... ...
— Red Masquerade • Louis Joseph Vance
... earliest day Dapples with gold the eastern grey, Oh, what, can frame my mind to bear The toil and turmoil, cark and care. New griefs, which coming hours unfold, And sad remembrance of the ...
— Woodstock; or, The Cavalier • Sir Walter Scott |
