Carked

So far, the only thing I have put off buying is a new electric toothbrush to replace the one that carked it a while back. ❋ Another Outspoken Female (2009)

We use no pestacides; never did on our lemon tree, but it carked it around two months ago and the new sapling we planted has suffered transplant stress, dropping its leaves, almost ready to meet its maker too!! ❋ Unknown (2009)

The gums were full of budgies, skawking and whistling their parodies of songbirds; finches wheeled from branch to branch; two sulphur-crested cockatoos sat with their heads to one side watching her progress with twinkling eyes; willy-wagtails fossicked in the dirt for ants, their absurd rumps bobbing; crows carked eternally and mournfully. ❋ McCullough, Colleen (1977)

The sun was yet so pale a buckler of silver through the still white mists that not a cord or timber cast a shadow; and only Abel Keeling's face and hands were black, carked and cinder-black from exposure to his pitiless rays. ❋ Oliver [pseud.] Onions (1917)

He will be 33 in March, the age Jesus was supposed to have carked it. ❋ Helen Pidd (2011)

When I told him I hadn't been frightened at all, and was simply trying to figure out what I would say to the papers if he carked it in my bed, he laughed. ❋ Germaine Greer (2010)

"I told him I hadn't been frightened, and was simply trying to figure out what I would say to the papers if he carked it in my bed." ❋ Helen Pidd (2010)

Planet soap was left reeling after Billie Jackson carked it in his sleep after a birthday night on the pop. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Then we drove down the Steve Irwin way (I am not joking - they were embarrassed by him before he carked it but that's untimely death for ya) & through the very scenic Currumbin valley way and had lunch in Cafeind in Nimbin and after a hangout & look around the hemp museum etc. we headed back which took 4 hours exactly. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"When I told him I hadn't been frightened at all and was simply trying to figure out what I would say to the papers if he carked it in my bed, he laughed," she said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If he carked it tomorrow, Dawkins 'reputation would probably not rest on this massive contribution to the public understanding of wonder, but on the anti God stuff. ❋ Unknown (2009)

August 22nd, 2009 Shruti Haasan maybe carked with the dismayed results of her Bollywood debut 'Luck', but that doesn't stop the young missy, as she has more plans of shining across the technical arenas. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Fuck, that reminds me - whilst SWOJ is a Q-ism, and Swells would never have gone anywhere near Q with a ten-foot pole, someone far more relevant, important and brilliant to music also just carked it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And as old ladies are wont to do, one day she turned up her toes and carked it TO DEATH. ❋ Unknown (2008)

that would make some sense, and form an update – but gah – the screen on the machine with the SCSI card and the scanner has carked it, and i really cannot be bothered doing remote X and walking down stairs to change the paper. ❋ Unknown (2003)