Canis Gallicus was the name used by the Gauls for their coursing dogs, which were most probably greyhounds, and Arian says they were called Vertragia, from a Celtic word denoting swiftness.
French way, English Court hunting having degenerated into coursing of stags within the park palings.
Usually the red squirrel (Sciurus Hudsonius) waked me in the dawn, coursing over the roof and up and down the sides of the house, as if sent out of the woods for this purpose.
There too the turtle doves sat over the spring, or fluttered from bough to bough of the soft white pines over my head; or the red squirrel, coursing down the nearest bough, was particularly familiar and inquisitive.
So Virginia had been that secret Never-Never Land, the wondrous fairy demesne of his childhood, with its amiable barbarians and its thickets of coursing grimalkins!
As already noted the Tartar version of the Pied Piper represents the Chanteur or Kentaur as a foal, coursing perpetually round the world.
On the one hand the exhortation to the dead to run past the two dogs in order to get to heaven, suits the idea of the heavenly dogs who are coursing across the sky.
There are not many things in heaven that can be represented as a pair, coursing across the sky, looking down upon the sea, and having other related properties.
The sun was shining brightly, and the bracing evening air sent the blood coursing cheerily through our veins, and inspired us with the brightest hopes of the future.
One day we received news that sent the blood coursing through our veins in swifter flow.
The texture of her skin, now that the coursing blood had obliterated to some extent the pinch and the bite of the sea, was fine and delicate, he could see, though suffering still from the salt.
She seated herself beside the dead hearth, with hands folded and the tears coursing down her withered cheeks.
One of the workmen had been hoisted by means of a pulley, and was being held aloft by his comrades below, when he spied some coursing in progress on Bondgate Green.
A thousand thoughts are seen coursing over her flushed brow; she looks to the audience, and her dark eye asks why this Corsair is so dear to her.
I accordingly suggested that we should confine our party to three mounted persons and three carts, with of course the same number of cheetahs, and endeavour to obtain some real coursing upon the open plain.
Soon the three were coursingover the downs like hares.
The shadows of thesecoursing rapidly over the plain, seemed to put the whole in motion; and we appeared to ourselves as if riding on the unquiet billows of the ocean.
William laughed outright "I don't mean to go coursing in these shoes, I assure you, Susy.
And coursing along that path of the Siddhas, that foremost of the Kurus and the son of Pandu, sat in beauty like Mandhata--that best of kings.
It is there, O thou tiger among men, that I heard that Salwa was coursing on his car of precious metals near the ocean, and I followed in his pursuit.
The Siddhas, and the Charanas and the Gandharvas and the Yakshas, and the Guhyakas, and the Nagas, desirous of obtaining boons follow thy car coursing through the skies.
And while the car was coursing thus, that conqueror of hostile cities, the royal son of Bhangasura, saw his upper garment drop down on the ground.
He would make his aunt speak: he would not understand her shake of the head and fast coursing tears.
She did not speak, for she really could not; but the tears came coursing down her old withered cheeks, and dimmed the horn spectacles she had put on, in order to pry lovingly into his face.
And Carson indicated the open yellow rivulet coursing down the center of the uneven street.
Then, a goodly distance from the water supply coursing through the old Moorish flume, on the lip of the gorge where a void had been left by the dismantling of the two infected cabanas, he had the men of the pueblo dig a deep pit.
It was Lord Kilkee, returned from his coursing match.
The ether all about was crowded with Space Men coursing with the Selba.
It was a pretty sight to the Earthians--those soundless globes of green flame that glowed dazzling for an infinitesimal instant, on the rich jewels and polished rifle barrels of the hordesmen coursing close by.
Now they were coursing with the little craft, swarming about it, edging nearer, at the same time taking care to keep out of range of Shelby's guns.
I have given up coursing for some time past, and the poor dog has had no chance after game to take the fire edge off of him If he was put after a hare occasionally he never would meddle with sheep.
While these thoughts were coursing through the poor girl's brain, there came another knock at the door; an insistent and somewhat fierce one this time.
Strange thoughts, strange and new, were coursing through the young girl's brain.
There is fresh blood at her heart, and fresh life coursing through her aged limbs.
Then looking, he saw the helm-bright Valkyrs coursing the air, keeping pace with the horsemen below.
Instead, he wandered up the shore of the lake in the moonlight, and presently was aware of a whooping sound among the trees, as it might be of a coursing owl.
Yet it happened that he lifted his eyes once more and after coursing through illimitable space they met those of Clarissa.
They're coursing through The gloomy forest paths and seek to catch That which, since God hath spoken, cannot be Therein.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coursing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
