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Definition of Coursers
1. courser [n] - See also: courser
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coursers
Literary usage of Coursers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe: From the Iron Period of the Northern by John Hewitt (1860)
"The coursers of "Pulle" (Apulia) are mentioned also by Chaucer, ... Towards the
close of the wars of Edward III., coursers had become so scarce, ..."
2. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"... Their captain to the ground, and bore away The chariot to the river's distant
shore. Meanwhile, with two white coursers to their car, The brothers ..."
3. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"... 17« Which in the tower's tall shadow lay, Where coursers' clang and stamp and
snort Had rung the livelong yesterday: Now still as death; till stalking ..."
4. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"Iig. which Pope renders— " With that he gives command to Fear and Flight To join
his rapid coursers for the fight. ..."
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