"Courser" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the French Revolution there was still to be seen at Quimper, between the two towers of the cathedral, a figure of King Gradlon mounted on his faithful courser, but in the stormy year of 1793 the name of king was in bad odour and the ignorant populace deprived the statue of its head. However, in 1859 it was restored. Legend attributes the introduction of the vine into Brittany to ...
— Legends & Romances of Brittany • Lewis Spence
... chorus rise Of dogs quick-mouth'd, and shouts that mingle loud, As bursting thunder rolls from cloud to cloud. With ears erect, and chest of vigorous mould, O'er ditch, o'er fence, unconquerably bold, The shining courser lengthens every bound, And his strong foot-locks suck the moisten'd ground, As from the confines of the wood they pour, And joyous villages partake the roar. O'er heath far stretch'd, or down, or valley low. The stiff-limb'd peasant, glorying ...
— The Farmer's Boy - A Rural Poem • Robert Bloomfield
... in ancient times there was a King fond of hunting. He was ever giving reins to the courser of his desire in the pursuit of game, and was always casting the lasso of gladness over the neck of sport. Now this King had a Hawk, who at a single flight could bring down a pebble from the peak of the Caucasus, and in terror of whose claws ...
— The Talking Beasts • Various
... while) his mistresse bore Through forrests thicke among the shadie treene, Her feeble hand the bridle reines forlore, Halfe in a swoune she was for feare, I weene; But her flit courser spared nere the more, To beare her through the desart woods unseene Of her strong foes, that chas'd her through the plaine, And still pursu'd, but ...
— Lives of the Poets, Vol. 1 • Samuel Johnson
... he embraced her and knew her carnally; after which he made the Ghusl-ablution; then, donning the dress of a white slave, he bade the syces saddle him a thoroughbred steed. Accordingly, they saddled him a courser and he mounted and farewelling his wife, rode forth the city at the last of the night, whilst all who saw him deemed him one of the Mamelukes of the Sultan going abroad on some business. Next morning, the King and his Wazir repaired to the sitting-chamber and sent for Princess ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton
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