Usage examples for racecourse
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It
was
Symons
who
had
built
a
racecourse
on
the
stony
plain;
who
had
organised
the
Jumrood
Spring
Meeting;
who
won
the
principal
event
himself,
to
the
delight
of
the
private
soldiers,
with
whom
he
was
intensely
popular;
who,
moreover,
was
to
be
first
and
foremost
if
the
war
with
the
tribes
broke
out
again;
and
who
was
entrusted
with
much
of
the
negotiations
with
their
jirgas.
– London to Ladysmith via Pretoria by Winston Spencer Churchill
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He
was
a
wild
and
roving
person,
to
whom
the
tavern,
and
the
racecourse,
and
the
cockpit,
from
his
very
boyhood
up,
had
been
as
the
breath
of
life,
and
with
whom
the
chance
of
mischief
was
never
willingly
foregone.
– Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by William Gilmore Simms