And at night the swart mechanic comes to drown his cark and care, Quaffing ale from pewter tankard; in the master's antique chair.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The nervous, excitable temper has helped the fret and cark of ambitious life.
"The Caxtons, Part 6"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Now, as I stood with scanty breath-for few men could have won that climb-at the top of the long defile, and the bottom of the mountain gorge all of myself, and the pain of it, and the cark of my discontent fell away into wonder and rapture.
"Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor"
R. D. Blackmore