Courses

Examples

• Then, havi ng inherited land in Berwickshire, he studied husbandry in Norfolk and took interest in the surface of the land and water-courses; later he pursued these studies in Flanders. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I suppose the Academy was bacon and beans in the Forty-Mile Desert, and a European gallery is a state dinner of thirteen courses. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• She affected to sneeze again, declared she was enrhumée, and then proceeded volubly to recount her courses en fiacre. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I say that, on that day, each knight ran three courses, and cast to the ground three antagonists. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• But some courses of action are too discommoding and obnoxious to others to allow of this course being pursued. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• For this straw was used, mixed with the clay; and stubble was also used in the different courses. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It looked, indeed, as if but two courses were open: one to starve, the other to surrender or be captured. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Between Lord Lowther's scanty courses there was ever room for reflection, even to madness. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• We had two courses, of three dishes each. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Proceeding thus to the last, I could get through a course complete in thirteen weeks, and four courses in a year. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Between courses he cried in the kitchen. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• If Parliament don't take their abominable courses under consideration, this country's ruined, and the character of the peasantry gone for ever! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Though the older courses resisted, they have had at least in this country to retire their pretensions to a monopoly. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• So the crooked courses will become crookeder, at any moment, for the least reason, or for none. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It is formed of rough stones, selected with care, and laid in courses or circles, with much compactness, but without cement of any kind. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The subterraneous waters may occasion earthquakes by their overflowing, cutting out new courses, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The substance of some lectures in defense of Christianity, in courses endowed by the will of Robert Boyle, made Franklin a Deist. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Mountains and river-courses have bearing on military tactics. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Sir James Chettam could not look with any satisfaction on Mr. Brooke's new courses; but it was easier to object than to hinder. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Well, she continued, I am going out, pour faire quelques courses en fiacre. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• These deposits have found their way into educational institutions in the form of studies, distinct courses of study, distinct types of schools. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

Editor: Nell