carks

To tie in with the dramatisation of Charles Dickens's unfinished The Mystery Of Edwin Drood, art critic Alastair Sooke explores the opportunities and moral dilemmas presented when a writer carks it before penning their happily ever after.

TV highlights 12/01/2012 2012

Seriously I think half of the USA western world is going to party when he finally carks it.

Dr. George Tiller 2009

Aral and Cordelia are married, and when the current bloke in charge carks it, he gets left in charge.

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Barrayar - Lois McMaster Bujold Blue Tyson 2007

Very silly setup of course, but entertaining enough for that, as Poirot tries to work it all out when, as will surprise nobody, one of the attendees carks it.

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Cards On the Table - Agatha Christie Blue Tyson 2007

Being a torture Shell and a Grate faverit, we had Him berrid in the Guardian, and for the sake of inrichment of the Mould, I had the carks deposeted under the roots of

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 402, Supplementary Number (1829) Various

But now Ned Worrell has snapped his chain; obstinate dyspepsia, and a prolonged nervous debility, have delivered him from the carks and cares of less privileged mortals.

The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various

"I will maintain" impulse, and she had escaped at birth that overpowering sense of superiority that carks the souls of high and low alike.

Black Oxen Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

It believes, in its optimism, that it will tumble the load of carks and cares into the first ditch, and live in freedom ever after!

The Justice of the King Hamilton Drummond 1896

We therein read his inmost carks and cares, and his passionate entreaties that the Queen-Regent would open her mind to him.

Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2) Sutherland Menzies 1861

If you're any good, you might get selected in a couple of elections 'time when your MP steps down or carks it.

A Very Public Sociologist Phil 2010