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This is the moment for giving the signal to commence the chace, and each of the impatient youths, dashing his pointed heels into his courser's sides, darts like the unhooded hawk in pursuit of the fugitive dove.
A Peep into Toorkisthhan Rollo Gillespie Burslem
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Who trust your courser's strength, and not your own?
The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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The gold boss'd saddle, strikes the courser's back,
La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier L��once [Translator] Rabillon
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Then the Prince set his foot on the courser's white skull;
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various
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It was difficult to remember that to check the courser's speed it was necessary to slacken rein, and that the tighter the reins were drawn, the faster he would fly.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Cuts through the courser's chine, nor seeks the joint.
La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier L��once [Translator] Rabillon
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For some time he cantered easily along, expecting any moment to hear the shouts and halloos of his friends following after; but they by mistake took quite another road, and no sound except the pounding of his courser's hoofs reached the Prince's ear.
The Firelight Fairy Book Henry Beston 1928
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The blades of reed grass bent not beneath him, so light was his courser's tread, as he journeyed toward the gate of
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An Arab could not have better sprung to seat on the courser's back.
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Frenchman, now created knight, called Pierre Papin, baron of Utrique; he whom you see pricking that pied courser's flanks with his armed heels is the mighty duke of Nervia, Espartafilardo of the Wood, bearing for device on his shield an asparagus plant with this motto in
The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites Eva March Tappan 1892
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