racecourse
Usage examples for racecourse:
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You cannot deny that this is a sensible question: Which is the better for an English gentleman, to use all the strength and valor that is entrusted him- we are taught there will be a reckoning when he must account for them- subduing savage Nature, that the hungry may eat cheaper bread, or lounging about a racecourse shooting driven pheasants- I know it needs high skill- or wasting precious hours in the reeking smoke- room of his club?
"Lorimer of the Northwest" – Harold Bindloss -
At first singly, then by twos, by threes, by dozens, those with whom his life had been spent- frequenters of the restaurant, the racecourse the tavern, and the theatre- followed one another in a headlong race to the unknown.
"War-time Silhouettes" – Stephen Hudson -
For the rest, he spoke English as well as I did, and I never knew whether Ferdinand was his real name, or one he took for the racecourse nor did I care.
"The Man Who Drove the Car" – Max Pemberton -
There Cordua had indeed been out- Corduad by a conspiracy to assassinate in cold blood all the military officers attending some sports about to be held under military patronage at the racecourse
"With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back" – Edward P. Lowry