Creese

"running amuck," so frequent in all other Malay countries, has never taken place, and with a population of 30,000 Malays, all of whom carry their "creese" and revenge an insult by a stab, murders do not occur more than once in five or six years. ❋ James Marchant (N/A)

Two brace of pistols, a Malay creese, and a tulwar, sharp on both sides, and very nearly six feet in length, completed this elegant costume. ❋ Unknown (2006)

A campilan (two-handled knife, double-edged), and a pearl-handled creese (dagger) were thrust into the sash. ❋ Florence Partello Stuart (N/A)

Taking a long breath, he grabbed his creese and dived. ❋ Florence Partello Stuart (N/A)

Drawing his creese, one of the villains cut the throat of the wounded man, nearly severing the head from the body. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

"If the creese falls without sticking into the ground, I shall choose my route first." ❋ Florence Partello Stuart (N/A)

"This shall be mine," said he, and he threw the cord around his own neck, and put the creese under his waistcoat. ❋ James De Mille (N/A)

He usually wears a smart green velvet or cloth jacket with gold buttons, a shirt with gold studs, loose trousers, and sometimes boots, and a petticoat and sash, in the latter of which is always a large creese or dagger, ornamented with gold and diamonds. ❋ Various (N/A)

Just in time he leaped aside and avoided a flying creese that shot from the outflung brown hand of a fallen Malay. ❋ Aylward Edward Dingle (N/A)

Brandon unbuttoned his vest and drew forth a Malay creese, which was hung around his neck and worn under his coat. ❋ James De Mille (N/A)

Scarcely had the sigh with which I uttered this desire died upon my lips, when Simon, with the aspect of a wild beast, glared at me savagely, and rushing to the mantel-piece, where some foreign weapons hung on the wall, caught up a Malay creese, and brandished it furiously before him. ❋ Various (N/A)

I had possessed myself of the Malay creese, which I held in my right hand, while with the other I discovered as accurately as I could by pulsation the exact locality of the heart. ❋ Various (N/A)

He carried with him the creese which Brandon had given him. ❋ James De Mille (N/A)

He drew forth a creese, and holding it up saw this name cut upon the handle: "JOHN POTTS." ❋ James De Mille (N/A)

His weapons were a bolo, a creese, and a bow and arrow. ❋ Florence Partello Stuart (N/A)

I heard a smothered sound issue from his throat, precisely like the bursting of a large air-bubble, sent up by a diver, when it reaches the surface of the water; he turned half round on his side, and as if to assist my plans more effectually, his right hand, moved by some more spasmodic impulse, clasped the handle of the creese, which it remained holding with extraordinary muscular tenacity. ❋ Various (N/A)

The thousand yards from the mouth of the cove to the moorings of the _Savonarola_ wound like a Malay _creese_ with an interrogation point for a handle. ❋ Will Levington Comfort (1905)

Slung against the wall appeared a fine carbine, the pistols and sword of Ian's father, and a wonderful long, twisted, and damascened knife or dirk -- creese, Ian called it -- that had come in some trading-ship of his uncle's. ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)

A magician with a sword -- with a great, evil, written-upon creese like that hanging at Black Hill -- was here before the palace. ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)

I heard a smothered sound issue from his throat, precisely like the bursting of a large air-bubble, sent up by a diver, when it reaches the surface of the water; he turned half round on his side, and, as if to assist my plans more effectually, his right hand, moved by some mere spasmodic impulse, clasped the handle of the creese, which it remained holding with extraordinary muscular tenacity. ❋ Joseph Lewis French (1897)