Do we say core or corps

core 596 occurrences

"Le ragazze di Trieste Cantan tutte con ardore, 'O Italia, O Italia del mio core, Tu ci vieni a liberar!'

" Then there is the old Michaelmas rhyme: "At Michaelmas time, or a little before, Half an apple goes to the core; At Christmas time, or a little after, A crab in the hedge, and thanks to the grafter.

Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

He realized how strange and strong was the need in him to prove he was American to the very core of his heart.

If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.

There is not the least similarity, however, between these horns and the bony deciduous antlers of deer, for, like those of all bovines, they are composed of agglutinated hairs, set on a bony core projecting from the frontal region of the skull.

It is a nation treacherous to the core, and it were beyond the diplomacy of any government,save only ours,to maintain relations on such a basis of fraud.

And now there came a day when the proud heart of Venice was stirred to its core, for a messenger dashed breathless into the Council Chamberan excited, protesting throng of the populace surging in through the open door behind him.

But there was vitality at the core of their creed, and its fuller triumphs were but a question of time.

He went to the very core,a realist of the most exalted type, permeated with the spirit of Plato, yet bowing down to Paul.

Unless a nation grows morally as well as materially, there is something wrong at the core of society.

As I have said, no material expansion will avail, if society becomes rotten at the core.

" "To the core.

Up to Valmy the old regular army, however shaken, had remained as a core.

The soul of a man has a series of concentric envelopes round it, like the core of an onion, or the innermost of a nest of boxes.

Little more than the core of the central cone is left.

Centrality N. centrality, centricalness^, center; middle &c 68; focus &c 74. core, kernel; nucleus, nucleolus; heart, pole axis, bull's eye; nave, navel; umbilicus, backbone, marrow, pith; vertebra, vertebral column; hotbed; concentration &c (convergence) 290; centralization; symmetry.

[Lat.], heart's core; the Absolute, psyche, subliminal consciousness, supreme principle.

Vast basaltic masses were oftentimes extruded into the astonished air from the very heart and core of the world.

Enter Navar, Bowyer, Nod, Core, Souldiers,

Though wee have left our brave Generall, the Earle of Pembrooke, yet here's Cavaliero Bowyer, Core and Nod, by Jesu, sound cards: and Mahound and Termagant come against us, weele fight with them.

Do you want a dying woman's curse?" It was a straight thrust to the core of a superstitious heart and a spasm of terror crossed the woman's face.

Place the hood in the square iron which has been folded downward toward the bottom of the tent, and continue to fold around the square iron as a core, pressing all folds down flat and smooth and parallel with the bottom of the tent.

It was for love of her that once or twice, when she took his hand in greeting, it was icy coldnot like Gianluca's, half dead, and dull, and chilly, and very thinbut cold from the heart, as it were, and more wildly living than if it had burned like fire; trembling, and not in weakness, with something that caught her own fingers and ran like lightning to the very core and quick of her soul, hurting it overmuch with its bolt of joy and fear.

Jimmie is hospitable to the core of his being, and nothing pleased him better than to keep "open house-boat" for the entire floating population of the Thames during Henley week.

corps 2620 occurrences

Besides the usual Varangian, Italian, and German guards, we find large corps of Patzinaks, Franks, and Turks enrolled in his armies, and officers of these nations occupying situations of the highest rank.

British advances she answered with battleships, simultaneously provoking France and Russia by increasing her army corps.

All I heard was that he was well when he left for Frisco an' strong for the aviation corps.

Amen." Yezeed was half-Irish, born of the renegade widow of an Irish sergeant of the corps of Sappers and Miners, who was placed at the disposition of this government by England, and who died in Morocco.

" Denbigh smiled without speaking; and the captain, unwilling to have anything to say to a gentleman to whom be had been obliged to apologize, went into the arbor to show the mangled condition of his head-piece to the colonel, on whose sympathies he felt a kind of claim, being of the same corps.

Colonel Egerton had taken leave of Jane the evening preceding, with many assurances of the anxiety with which he should look forward to the moment of their meeting at L, whither he intended repairing as soon as his corps had gone through its annual review.

"He can't afford to go down to Wilmington with a carload of books and a corps of experts to prove the value of Horse's Neck.

Talking of the different Highland corps, the gentlemen who were present wished to have his opinion which were the best soldiers.

He said, he did not like comparisons among those corps: they were all best.

He had, you see, been a private in that proud exclusive Corps, and its glory for him outshone all human glories.

"I should not feel that I belonged to the old Corps in khaki.

The old Corps is going with me to do a pretty bit of work, different from anything that it has ever done before.

"I have entered Selingman's corps of the German Secret Service.

600 "And here the antique fame of stout Camill Doth ever live; and constant Curtius, Who, stifly bent his vowed life to spill For countreyes health, a gulph most hideous Amidst the towne with his owne corps did fill, 605 T'appease the Powers; and prudent Mutius, Who in his flesh endur'd the scorching flame, To daunt his foe by ensample of the same.

The province formed and at the same time trained the army; regular levies took place in the territory subject to Carthage; the prisoners of war were introduced into the Carthaginian corps.

When once Hannibal was in the Celtic territory on the Roman side of the Rhone, he could no longer be prevented from reaching the Alps; but if Scipio had at the first accounts proceeded with his whole army to Italythe Po might have been reached by way of Genoa in seven daysand had united with his corps the weak divisions in the valley of the Po, he might have at least prepared a formidable reception for the enemy.

But not only did he lose precious time in the march to Avignon, but, capable as otherwise he was, he wanted either the political courage or the military sagacity to change the destination of his corps as the change of circumstances required.

Moreover, the pass of the Little St. Bernard, while not the lowest of all the natural passes of the Alps, is by far the easiest; although no artificial road was constructed there, an Austrian corps with artillery crossed the Alps by that route in 1815.

But the Roman corps, whose two severely thinned legions did not number 20,000 soldiers, had enough to do to keep the Celts in check, and did not think of occupying the passes of the Alps.

Thus the Roman army, after its hazardous division into two separate corps had just been appropriately obviated, was once more divided; and not only so, but the two sections were placed under leaders who notoriously followed quite opposite plans of war.

Driven back into the plain, the Romans were reinforced from the camp by the light troops and the excellent corps of Aetolian cavalry, and now in turn forced the Macedonian vanguard back upon and over the height.

Simultaneously with this great defeat, the Macedonians suffered other discomfitures at all the points which they still occupied; in Caria the Rhodian mercenaries defeated the Macedonian corps stationed there and compelled it to shut itself up in Stratonicea; the Corinthian garrison was defeated by Nicostratus and his Achaeans with severe loss, and Leucas in Acarnania was taken by assault after a heroic resistance.

Even the Aetolians, when their corps shut up in Heraclea had been compelled after obstinate resistance to capitulate, attempted to make their peace with the sorely provoked Romans; but the stringent demands of the Roman consul, and a consignment of money seasonably arriving from Antiochus, emboldened them once more to break off the negotiations and to sustain for two whole months a siege in Naupactus.

Mutilus now put royal robes on him, and the Numidians in Caesar's army, when they saw him, deserted in troops, so that Caesar was forced to send the whole corps home.

But, as soon as Sulla was gaining ground in Italy, he went to Picenum where he had estates, and expelled from Auximum the adherents of Carbo, and then passing from town to town won them one by one from his late protector's interests, and got together a corps of three legions, with all the proper equipment and munitions of war.

Do we say   core   or  corps