"Courser" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... will return no more; but put your head still into the folds of the tent, and lick the hands of my beloved children." With these words, as his hands were tied, the chief, with his teeth, undid the fetters which held the courser bound, and set him at liberty; but the noble animal, on recovering his freedom, instead of galloping away to the desert, bent his head over his master, and seeing him in fetters, and on the ground, took his clothes ...
— Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals • R. Lee
... Baron of Smaylho'me rose with day, He spurr'd his courser on, Without stop or stay, down the rocky way, ...
— Spare Hours • John Brown
... Smaylho'me rose with day, He spurred his courser on, Without stop or stay, down the rocky way That ...
— An English Grammar • W. M. Baskervill and J. W. Sewell
... and about all men, by reason of their bondage to avarice, ambition, appetite, and passion, hovers Black Care. It flits above their sleepless eyes in the panelled ceiling of the darkened palace, it sits behind them on the courser as they rush into battle, it dogs them as they are at the pleasures of the bronze-trimmed yacht. It pursues them everywhere, swifter than the deer, swifter than the wind that drives before it the storm-cloud. Not even those ...
— Horace and His Influence • Grant Showerman
... be faring Homeward to our own again! Let us try the sea-steed's daring, Give the chafing courser rein. Those who will may bide in quiet, Let them praise their chosen land, Feasting on a whale-steak diet, ...
— The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 • Various
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