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Example sentences for "direct course"

  • At the Samedis, in the Marais, they are amusing themselves about the same time with letters and Vers de Societe.

  • Her pleasant rooms were separate and independent, thus enabling her to give herself not only to the care of her health and her soul, but to a select society, to literature, and to conversation.

  • They could see it swimming for some time in a tortuous track, its head and part of its neck erect above the water; then it took a direct course, as if determined upon leaving the lagoa.

  • Her crew could see that to proceed farther, on a direct course, was simply impossible.

  • My father, however, did not entirely trust him: taking out his compass, he examined it frequently, to ascertain that he was conducting us on a direct course.

  • By the rapidity of the current we judged that it made a direct course to the sea; and it was evidently far too deep to allow us to hope that we could wade across it.

  • My dog began to run briskly around, having met with ground on which he had hunted before, and taking a direct course, led us to the great causeway that crosses the marshes at the back of the town.

  • Some pursue a direct course, others diverge on either side; but in a short time they all drop into their natural element.

  • I saw that he was a perfect Indian in his knowledge of the woods, for he kept a direct course as precisely as any "Red-skin" I ever travelled with.

  • Capable of being refracted, or turned out of a direct course, in passing from one medium to another, as rays of light.

  • To hark back, to go back for a fresh start, as when one has wandered from his direct course, or made a digression.

  • Turned from a direct course by refraction; as, refracted rays of light.

  • The art of sailing in a direct course, or on the arc of a great circle, which is the shortest distance between any two points on the surface of the globe; great-circle sailing; orthodromy.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another language; constitutional interpretation; direct answer; direct experience; direct experiment; direct foreign; direct government; direct knowledge; direct line; direct popular; direct proof; direct question; direct reference; direct statement; directed against; directed fire; direction contrary; direction opposite; directly after; directly contrary; directly opposed; directly opposite; directly proportional; great style; liquid manure; medical students