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

To both it came, More fleeting than the beauty of a flame: Now each within the other's hungering eye Beholds the corse of Joy embalmèd lie, And smiles to know his penury the same.

From Songs of Womanhood by Alma-Tadema, Laurence