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There are other kinds of courser Sands, which are browner, and have their particles much bigger; these, view'd with a Microscope, seem much courser and more opacous substances, and most of them are of some irregularly rounded Figures; and though they seem not so opacous as to the naked eye, yet they seem very foul and cloudy, but neither do these want curiously transparent, no more than they do regularly figur'd and well colour'd particles, as I have often found.

{108} CREAM-COLOURED COURSER Cursorius gallicus General plumage a bright clear yellowish sand colour; forehead a bright burnt sienna; crown of head a light lilac-grey; eyebrows white; eyes brown; legs white.

When the bird crouches down it is practically invisible, though, as the phrase is, it may be “right under your nose,” but as a matter of fact it seems most often to perversely upset the whole value of what we men deem its valuable{109} CREAM-COLOURED COURSER CREAM-COLOURED COURSER protective asset by running about, and drawing attention to itself by continually uttering its peculiar cry.

The riders would leap them over my hand, as I held it on the ground; and one of the emperor’s huntsmen, upon a large courser, took my foot, shoe and all; which was indeed a prodigious leap.

" 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 gently between his teeth, lifted him up and set off at full speed towards home.

Their great enemy is the lion, who springs upon them when they are drinking, and the affrighted giraffes start with all the speed of a swift courser, their enemy on their back, nor stop till they fall from exhaustion or loss of blood.

A cream-coloured courser had used to visit this hill, a bird so rare that not more than a dozen have ever been seen in England; but a barbarian rested neither night nor day till he had shot the African truant, and after that event cream-coloured coursers thought fit to enter Egdon no more.

Freed from his keepers, thus with broken reins, The wanton courser prances o'er the plains: Or in the pride of youth, o'erleaps the mounds, And snuffs the females in forbidden grounds.

By the time we had come within sight of the [Page 154] back-door, through which I had that evening stolen out; a violent shower came on, which obliged me to hasten my speed-I intreated him to leave me, but he held me fast by the arm, till we came to the house, which he entered along with me. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Here drop the curtain, Edward! and let this first false step of my whole life, stand as a mark for the innocent and unwary to shun-Let them restrain the first encroachments of a favoured lover, nor vainly fancy when once they yield the reins, that they can after check the ardent courser's speed. [Page 155] Till that unhappy night, guilt was a stranger to my suffering heart, and therefore I had never known remorse, or fear-It was impossible to soothe my tortured soul to peace-The fond delusion of his prior right, both to my person and my heart-My former arguments, of dissolved tie, and transferred [...]ffections, appeared all but self-deceit, in my present circumstances; the wretched sophistry vanished like a phantom, from me, and in its room the priest, the altar, all the awful scene, where I had bound myself by solemn vows to be another's wife, now rushed upon me; and in the anguish of my heart, I bitterly exclaimed against him, as the prime source of all my misery, and bad him fly, for ever, from my sight. [Page 156] Sir Thomas said every thing that honour could dictate, or love inspire, to temper my emotions of grief and rage; threw himself at my feet, intreated my forgiveness, called me his wife, his betrothed before heaven, vowed eternal faith and constancy to me, and offered to fly with me to any part of the globe.

The stag, having taken a deep river that lay in his way, every man directed his course to a bridge in the neighbourhood; but our bridegroom's courser, despising all such conveniences, plunged into the stream without hesitation, and swam in a twinkling to the opposite shore.

In a famous tournament, he entered the lists on a fiery courser, and overturned in his first career two of the stoutest of the Italian knights.

That strong and patient beast of burden can perform, without eating or drinking, a journey of several days; and a reservoir of fresh water is preserved in a large bag, a fifth stomach of the animal, whose body is imprinted with the marks of servitude: the larger breed is capable of transporting a weight of a thousand pounds; and the dromedary, of a lighter and more active frame, outstrips the fleetest courser in the race.

His diadem, his robes, and his courser, were found on the bank; but as the body of the Gothic prince was lost in the waves, the pride and ignorance of the caliph must have been gratified with some meaner head, which was exposed in triumph before the palace of Damascus. "And such," continues a valiant historian of the Arabs, "is the fate of those kings who withdraw themselves from a field of battle." [176] [A.

The successor of Constantine was clothed in a robe of white silk, and mounted on a milk-white steed, a circumstance, in the French ceremonial, of singular importance: the white color is considered as the symbol of sovereignty; and, in a late visit, the German emperor, after a haughty demand and a peevish refusal, had been reduced to content himself with a black courser.

My bounding courser bore me to the spot- There Raimond I beheld, o'erpow'r'd and prone: Lifting this temper'd sword, I cleft the arm Which, aiming at his heart, had instant pierc'd it- He rose with strength renew'd, and we grew victors.

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