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
The dead monk speaks again— Far from my grave the sinner's corse In unhallowed clay lies deep; And now in my coffin, undefiled, For ever in peace I sleep.
From Old Celtic Romances by Unknown
