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  • noun Plural form of courser.

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Examples

  • I hope, for the sake of these frisky animals, that the coursers' hounds are never unleashed at this spot.

    Country diary: Bedfordshire 2011

  • Our coursers were harnessed in a jiffy, and with a little nod -- as much as to say, "See you to-morrow" -- we were off.

    The South Pole~ The Start for the Pole 2009

  • So up to the house top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh fall of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

    CNN Transcript Dec 23, 2009 2009

  • Why are they not the same legal outcasts and social pariahs that hare coursers are?

    Hunting: the other face 2009

  • O breeze from out the deep arising, that waftest swift galleys, ocean's coursers, across the surging main! whither wilt thou bear me the child of sorrow?

    Hecuba 2008

  • O SUN-GOD, who cleavest thy way along the starry sky, mounted on golden-studded car, rolling on thy path of flame behind fleet coursers, how curst the beam thou didst shed on Thebes, the day that

    The Phoenissae 2008

  • O breeze from out the deep arising, that waftest swift galleys, ocean's coursers, across the surging main! whither wilt thou bear me the child of sorrow?

    Hecuba 2008

  • O SUN-GOD, who cleavest thy way along the starry sky, mounted on golden-studded car, rolling on thy path of flame behind fleet coursers, how curst the beam thou didst shed on Thebes, the day that

    The Phoenissae 2008

  • While in the centre of the shield the sun's bright orb flashed light on the backs of his winged coursers; there too was the heavenly choir of stars, Pleiades and Hyades, to dazzle Hector's eyes and make him flee; and upon his gold-forged helm were sphinxes, bearing in their talons the prey of which the minstrels sing; on his breast-plate was lioness breathing flame, her eye upon Peirene's steed, in eagerness to rend it.

    Electra 2008

  • While in the centre of the shield the sun's bright orb flashed light on the backs of his winged coursers; there too was the heavenly choir of stars, Pleiades and Hyades, to dazzle Hector's eyes and make him flee; and upon his gold-forged helm were sphinxes, bearing in their talons the prey of which the minstrels sing; on his breast-plate was lioness breathing flame, her eye upon Peirene's steed, in eagerness to rend it.

    Electra 2008

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