corse
Example Sentences
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A herder undertakes the time-consuming job of separating the corse outer hair from the finer, softer undercoat.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 10, 2020
At seven, T. S. Eliot produced a biography of George Washington which concluded with the memorable line: "And then he died, of corse."
From Time Magazine Archive
The form corse is sometimes used in poetry; as in the poem on the Burial of Sir John Moore:
From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton
We others cut down timber on the foreland, on a high point, and built his pyre of logs, then stood by weeping while the flame burnt through corse and equipment.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
If I but turn the leaf, Shame sits like a foul vulture on a corse, And flaps its wings on the dishonor'd names Of knights and nobles.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
