Word Finder - course

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A sequence of events.

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The normal course of events seems to be just one damned thing after another.

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A path that something or someone moves along.

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His illness ran its course.

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The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.

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Main course and mainsail are the same thing in a sailing ship.

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(in the plural, courses) Menses.

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A row or file of objects.

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One or more strings on some musical instruments (such as the guitar, lute or vihuela): if multiple, then closely spaced, tuned in unison or octaves and intended to played together.

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To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).

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Blood pumped around the human body courses throughout all its veins and arteries.

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To run through or over.

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To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.

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To cause to chase after or pursue game.

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to course greyhounds after deer

Of course, he was just a kid.

The service on Christmas Eve day was, of course, about Jesus.

She carried a chair to a spot that wouldn't be visible on a course from the path to the door, and sat down.

Of course I know, and so does he.

Of course they will be.

Of course she couldn't go with him.

Of course, that didn't mean he wasn't involved.

The rich, of course, got very clever about where they earned and reported income.

Of course, she had stood up for Allen.

Of course it never crossed your mind.

Of course, they didn't have the same mother, either.

Yes, I am taking the regular college course for a degree.

Of course, I stand to be corrected on many of the specifics.

And it was not Napoleon who directed the course of the battle, for none of his orders were executed and during the battle he did not know what was going on before him.

And as long as my sister Natasha was engaged to her brother it was of course out of the question for me to think of marrying her.

Of course, that didn't mean much.

Of course, she could call Connie, but Yancey's conversation on the phone was fresh in her memory.

Of course I don't have it.

Of course, he had not gone far when he noticed the brightness of the leaves, and he quickly guessed the cause when he saw the broken jars from which the treasure was still dropping.

Of course, he thought she was giving him a signal.

Of course I ran.

And, of course the first winter she would have a warm body to sleep with.

Of course he did.

Of course you have read about the "Gordon Memorial College," which the English people are to erect at Khartoum.

At that time, when everything was plunged in darkness, preaching alone was of course sufficient.

The more he realized the absence of all personal motive in that old man--in whom there seemed to remain only the habit of passions, and in place of an intellect (grouping events and drawing conclusions) only the capacity calmly to contemplate the course of events--the more reassured he was that everything would be as it should.

After meeting Princess Mary, though the course of his life went on externally as before, all his former amusements lost their charm for him and he often thought about her.

She was right, of course, but having mama stand there watching her suffer was just as upsetting for Destiny.

Which of course Dean didn't, in the least.

Of course, he had no way of knowing that.

Of course, that was easy to say.

Of course he was right.

The ground to the right--along the course of the Kolocha and Moskva rivers--was broken and hilly.

Of course, she knew Alex well enough now to know he didn't like people to hand out information about him.

Of course, all of those conditions are unacceptable to the responsible drunk.

It'd stay up there, of course.

Of course it wasn't Franny.

Of course I am.

Of course, I'll start drawing some ideas right away.

The word THE she did not know, and of course she wished it explained.

Those who tried to understand the general course of events and to take part in it by self-sacrifice and heroism were the most useless members of society, they saw everything upside down, and all they did for the common good turned out to be useless and foolish--like Pierre's and Mamonov's regiments which looted Russian villages, and the lint the young ladies prepared and that never reached the wounded, and so on.

This was the first indication of the necessity of deviating from what had previously seemed the most natural course--a direct retreat on Nizhni-Novgorod.

Her life was on a new course now, and the future looked brighter than it ever had.

They both agreed to let the situation take its course now that Weller was involved.

Ha, of course you are, you're always hungry.

Of course he is.

Connor assumed his best course would be to remove the IV from Elisabeth's arm, and saw this as his opportunity.

Of course, there was no reason to refuse.

Of course it matters.

He was teasing, of course.