Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plot of ground laid out for horse-racing, having a track for the horses, usually elliptical, and accommodations for the participants and spectators.
- noun The canal along which water is conveyed to or from a water-wheel.
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Examples
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One must never smoke in a theatre, on a race-course, nor in church.
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ON THE HIGHWAY to Salinas, not far from beautiful Laguna Seca race-course, Kathryn Dance braked her unmarked Ford to a halt in front of a construction worker holding a portable stop sign.
Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009
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ON THE HIGHWAY to Salinas, not far from beautiful Laguna Seca race-course, Kathryn Dance braked her unmarked Ford to a halt in front of a construction worker holding a portable stop sign.
Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009
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ON THE HIGHWAY to Salinas, not far from beautiful Laguna Seca race-course, Kathryn Dance braked her unmarked Ford to a halt in front of a construction worker holding a portable stop sign.
Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009
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ON THE HIGHWAY to Salinas, not far from beautiful Laguna Seca race-course, Kathryn Dance braked her unmarked Ford to a halt in front of a construction worker holding a portable stop sign.
Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009
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ON THE HIGHWAY to Salinas, not far from beautiful Laguna Seca race-course, Kathryn Dance braked her unmarked Ford to a halt in front of a construction worker holding a portable stop sign.
Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009
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O Artemis, who watchest o'er sea-beat Limna and the race-course thundering to the horse's hoofs, would I were upon thy plains curbing Venetian steeds!
Hippolytus 2008
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Pylades to help him in his task, he made the servants withdraw, and catching the calf by the hoof, proceeded to lay bare its white flesh, with arm outstretched, and he flayed the hide quicker than a runner ever finishes the two laps of the horses 'race-course; next he laid the belly open, and Aegisthus took the entrails in his hands and carefully examined them.
Electra 2008
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Some 500 foreigners sought safety at the Milnerton police station and an emergency centre at the Killarney race-course.
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O Artemis, who watchest o'er sea-beat Limna and the race-course thundering to the horse's hoofs, would I were upon thy plains curbing Venetian steeds!
Hippolytus 2008
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