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The incident added to the nastiness that had been coursing through this series since Chris Kreider’s collision with the Canadiens’ Carey Price in Game 1.

From New York Times • May 27, 2014

Mr. Sellars drew on a fanciful, experimental tradition that had been coursing through America’s theater and new-music scenes for decades but was largely missing from its opera.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2012

Mhor and Peter had been coursing about like two puppies, covering at least four times the ground their elders covered, and were now lagging, weary-footed, much desiring their midday meal.

From Penny Plain by Douglas, O.

Soulé, with his gun and game-bag, had been coursing over the hills three miles back, since four o'clock.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 by Various

In the deep cut of the glen there was very little snow, only a few veins and patches here and there, threading and seaming the steep, as if a white-footed hare had been coursing about.

From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)