Cressy McKinstry. Belle of Tuolumne County, California; pretty, saucy and illiterate. She conceives the idea of getting an education, and attends the district school, breaking an engagement of marriage to do this; bewitches the master, a college graduate, and confesses her love for him, but will not be "engaged:"
"I don't know enough to be a wife to you just now and you know it. I couldn't keep a house fit for you and you couldn't keep me without it.... You're only a dandy boy, you know, and they don't get married to backwood Southern girls."
After many scrapes involving perils, shared together, and much love-making, he is stunned one morning to learn that Cressy is married to another man, whom she had feigned not to like.—Bret Harte, Cressy (1889).
Crete (Hound of), a blood-hound.—See Midsummer Night's Dream, act iii. sec. 2.
Coupe le gorge, that's the word; I thee defy again,
O hound of Crete!
Shakespeare, Henry V. act ii. sc. 1 (1599).
Crete (The Infamy of), the Minotaur.
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