Lexicographical Neighbors of Craking
Literary usage of Craking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by Robert Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt (1874)
"I am at hand here prest, Put away tongue-shaking And this foolish craking.
Let us try for the best: Cowards make speech apace ; Stripes prove the man : Have ..."
2. Thomas Hardy's Dorset by Robert Thurston Hopkins (1922)
"craking, complaining. " I, Anthony James Pye Molley, Can burn, take, sink, and
destroy ; There's ... And that is, to stop the craking tongue of my wife. ..."
3. The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun Printed on Parallel Pages from by Andrew, François Joseph Amours, John Thomas Tosbach Brown, George Neilson (1904)
"... Had nocht bene a ganare at maid Sa huge a craking and sic cry That all the
Romanis ... sic craking maid That ..."
4. Scot. Text S. by Scottish Text Society (1904)
"... Had nocht bene a ganare at maid Sa huge a craking and sic cry That all the
Romanis ... sic craking maid That ..."
5. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by Robert Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt (1874)
"I am at hand here prest, Put away tongue-shaking And this foolish craking.
Let us try for the best: Cowards make speech apace ; Stripes prove the man : Have ..."
6. Thomas Hardy's Dorset by Robert Thurston Hopkins (1922)
"craking, complaining. " I, Anthony James Pye Molley, Can burn, take, sink, and
destroy ; There's ... And that is, to stop the craking tongue of my wife. ..."
7. The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun Printed on Parallel Pages from by Andrew, François Joseph Amours, John Thomas Tosbach Brown, George Neilson (1904)
"... Had nocht bene a ganare at maid Sa huge a craking and sic cry That all the
Romanis ... sic craking maid That ..."
8. A Supplement to Dodsley's Old Plays by Robert Dodsley, Thomas Amyot, Alexander Dyce, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1853)
"All the day long is he facing and craking"*" Of his great actes in fighting and
fray making ... Facing and craking.~\ Impudently vaunting and boasting. ..."
9. Scot. Text S. by Scottish Text Society (1904)
"... Had nocht bene a ganare at maid Sa huge a craking and sic cry That all the
Romanis ... sic craking maid That ..."
10. A Supplement to Dodsley's Old Plays by Robert Dodsley, Thomas Amyot, Alexander Dyce, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1853)
"All the day long is he facing and craking"*" Of his great actes in fighting and
fray making ... Facing and craking.~\ Impudently vaunting and boasting. ..."
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