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

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

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

Not a drum was heard, not a funeral-note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.

From A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)