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Carking

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cark  (kärk)
tr. & intr.v. carked, cark·ing, carks
To burden or be burdened with trouble; worry.
n.
A worry; a trouble: carks and cares.

[Middle English carken, from Norman French carquier, to burden, load, from Late Latin carricre; see cargo.]


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In all the earlier years when her babies were young, carking cares and anxieties darkened the fireside with their brooding wings.
That she had already permitted him to make love to her he read as an additional assurance, not fully trowing that in the fields and pastures to "sigh gratis" is by no means deemed waste; love-making being here more often accepted inconsiderately and for its own sweet sake than in the carking anxious homes of the ambitious, where a girl's craving for an establishment paralyzes her healthy thought of a passion as an end.
For nowadays, the whale-fishery furnishes an asylum for many romantic, melancholy, and absent-minded young men, disgusted with the carking cares of earth, and seeking sentiment in tar and blubber.
 
 
 
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