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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

Course

English answer:

flowing through

Added to glossary by Masoud Kakouli Varnousfaderani
Apr 25, 2015 21:34
9 yrs ago
English term

Course

English Other Poetry & Literature
He drew several deep breaths, having heard deep breathing recommended by his wife's doctor; but they augmented rather than diminished the sensation--as if some sweetish liquor in course within him, together with a faint aching just above his heart.
Responses
4 +9 flowing through

Discussion

BdiL Apr 30, 2015:
With Charles Davis. Try substituting "just like" to "as if" and "just like some sweetish liquor in course within him" will sound sound plausible (without an explicit verb) even to your modern ear. Maurizio.
Charles Davis Apr 26, 2015:
The verb is understood The sense is "as if they were". You can get away with this in an Edwardian literary style (it's Galsworthy), but it sounds stilted nowadays.
JaneTranslates Apr 26, 2015:
Agree with Danik, although I would have suggested "were" (subjunctive) rather than "was." I checked the ST, though, and the asker has apparently copied it correctly. It certainly seems to me that the clause after the dash needs a verb.
Danik 2014 Apr 25, 2015:
I'm missing a verb here:
''as if some sweetish liquor*was* in course within him, together with a faint aching just above his heart"?

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flowing through

as if some sweetish liquor in course within him

as if some sweetish liquor were flowing through him

COURSE

1
: the act or action of moving in a path from point to point

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/course

'In course' can also mean 'underway; in process' but I don't think that is the meaning here.
Peer comment(s):
agree Patricia Fierro, M. Sc.
0 min
Thank you, Patricia :)
agree David Hollywood
55 mins
Thank you, David :-)
agree Carol Gullidge : Coursing through his veins, I guess, although the ST phrasing sounds really odd to my ears
1 hr
Yes, I agree it sounds a bit strange. Thank you, Carol :)
agree Thayenga : With Carol. :)
1 hr
Thank you, Thayenga :)
agree Danik 2014
1 hr
Thank you very much :)
agree Charles Davis : See disc. note
6 hrs
Thank you, Charles :)
agree Edith Kelly
8 hrs
Thank you, Edith :)
agree bestofbest
14 hrs
Thank you very much :)
agree Phong Le
3 days 3 hrs
Thank you, Phong Le :)
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