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

So, well: make a place for his corse in thy bed, With the purples thou sleepest in, under and over He's fair though a corse—a fair corse, like a sleeper.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett