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.
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.
His wee bit ingle, blinkin bonnily, His clean hearth-stane, his thriftie wifie's smile, The lisping infant prattling on his knee, Does a' his weary
carking care beguile, An' makes him quite forget his labour and his toil.
Yet we had watched his smooth brow furrow and corrugate as under some
carking care or devouring sorrow.
Each State is the constituent and enacting party, and the United States in Congress assembled the recipient of delegated power--and that power delegated with such a penurious and
carking hand that it had more the aspect of a revocation of the Declaration of Independence than an instrument to carry it into effect.