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Example sentences for "coursed"

Lexicographically close words:
couriers; courir; couronne; cours; course; courser; coursers; courses; coursing; court
  1. At night when her whole body quivered with fatigue and rivers of weariness coursed over her frame, it was an agency of relief.

  2. The Resurrection was stirring through the worn kingdoms of men, and the blood of the Builders coursed beneath it all like the rivers of life!

  3. It was just now attracting the eye of all the East, and picturesque people coursed in and out of it like a strange spice.

  4. As the fearful monster crawled growling towards him, incongruous thoughts coursed through his mind.

  5. Hot blood coursed in my flesh, I was as if elevated by the fecundity overflowing from the soil and ascending within me.

  6. Torrents were in store, for they coursed streamingly still and had not the higher lift, or eagle ascent, which he knew for one of the signs of fairness, nor had the hills any belt of mist-like vapour.

  7. You seem to have coursed the hare and captured the hart.

  8. Dalgard summoned up his last rags of energy and coursed after him.

  9. With the force of a whiplash it coursed across the rock and in its passing embrace, the creatures below writhed and withered to charred heaps.

  10. Louis took it mechanically, laid it on the table, and looked at it for an instant with a fixed and haggard eye; then two tears coursed down his pallid cheeks, and a sob burst from his chest.

  11. He was somewhat confused as to the points of the compass, but the faint roar was his guide, and with little trouble he placed himself quite near the stream, which coursed between the rocks with such impetuosity.

  12. What strange musings coursed through that warped brain is beyond the power of fancy to imagine.

  13. In a moment the woman's eyes were flooded with tears, which coursed down her cheeks.

  14. Even the song of the tumbling creek, which coursed through the heart of the valley, was powerless to awaken discordant echoes.

  15. Conyers stared around him, but his eye rested only on bare walls, and the big tear coursed down his hardy cheek.

  16. She was leaning back in her chair; and though she did her utmost to conceal her agitated countenance, a tear coursed down her cheek big as the miserable Medora's!

  17. At length we came to a halt on a strip of sward, at the brink of a formidable canon several hundred feet deep, down which coursed one of the largest streams we had yet encountered.

  18. As Essalake told this story the tears coursed down his cheek.

  19. He awoke; called for Emily's letter; and as he read it once more, the tears coursed down his sunken cheeks.

  20. Jason, having among his freights the veritable golden fleece, still coursed the seas, but beheld with rapture the fair outlines of the Dreamland coast traced in the far blue and mysterious horizon.

  21. Jason and his fellows coursed the seas, scanning with eager eyes the cloudy belt of the horizon, hopefully seeking some signs of the Fortunate Islands, of whose indescribable beauty and untold wealth they had heard many surmises.

  22. For sixty-five days he coursed a wild country and braved floods.

  23. Proceeding up the river, they entered the lake, coursed its western shore, and moved tardily along.

  24. A tear slowly coursed down her cheek, and, following the curves, trembled on the tip of her chin.

  25. And in turn the mountain wildness coursed in his blood; these had been his emotions, before he became its prodigal child.

  26. The cars coursed to the curve, and turned parallel, facing the tracks.

  27. A feeble groan burst from his lips, and tears coursed down his cheeks.

  28. Tears coursed down her cheeks in streams as she embraced the slender form with passionate affection, and stroked the thin face with her withered hands.

  29. In an impassioned speech to a cold and hostile audience he suddenly burst into tears that coursed down his cheeks and impeded his utterance, and his most inveterate enemies seemed to be affected.

  30. Every minute at this streaming window I was looking into the street, where cabs and umbrellas, few and far between, were scarcely discoverable through the rivulets that coursed over the glass.

  31. He was silent again, and tears coursed one another down his rugged cheeks.

  32. His religion, like the blood that coursed through his veins, was a real part of him.

  33. Little wonder that chills and thrills coursed through her.

  34. Ursula has a stone apse, circular in plan, coursed with brick, and pierced with three Moorish windows.

  35. La Concepcion has a polygonal apse of rude stonework below, and is coursed with bricks from mid-height upwards, with three Moresque windows set within square recessed panels; whilst Sta.

  36. All these thoughts coursed through his mind as he leaned back in his chair, his lips tight set, the jaw firm and determined--only the lids quivering as he mastered the tears that crept to their edges.

  37. As much as the horned toad in the sand at Bull's feet, as much as the lizard that coursed swiftly along the adobe wall above the sleeper's head; as much as the sahuaro and the tormented yucca, they belonged to the land.

  38. Like some huge dog held in leash, slow shivers coursed through his frame.

  39. At the first shot the band had stampeded, and now, urged on by the yells of the fugitives, who rode crouched on their horses' necks, the scared animals coursed swiftly down the valley.

  40. About a sazhen [Fathom] below the level of the barraque there coursed noisily over its bed of stones a rivulet white with foam.

  41. And at every moment the wayfarers heard the trumpeting of giant elephants, the fierce howling of the tiger, the grisly laugh of the foul hyaena, and the whimpering of the wild dogs as they coursed by on the tracks of their prey.

  42. She wrung her hands, and the tears coursed down her cheeks; but the tailor was perfectly unmoved.

  43. Her large black eyes were staring wildly, and the only sign of life she exhibited was when the great tears coursed down her cheeks.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coursed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.