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Sentences ending with spur

That was my spur. [9]
In some species of Lobivanellus a similar tubercle becomes developed during the breeding-season "into a short horny spur. [1]
But she failed of everything except to keep her seat the saddle, and to spur and spur. [13]
All the lights in the house were at once put out, and a little while after, when the streets had become dark and still, we crept stealthily through them and out at the western gate and rode away under whip and spur. [5]
He leaned back, and drew up the foot to take off the spur. [11]
Each one was a well-defined lead by itself, and without a spur. [5]

More example sentences with the word spur in them

And it's back with the ring of the chain and the spur, And it's back with the sun on the hill and the moor, And it's back is the thought sets my pulses astir,-- But I'll never go back to Farcalladen more! [11]
The spur was with difficulty drawn from the skull, and as the kite, though dead, retained his grasp, the two birds were firmly locked together; but the cock when disentangled was very little injured. [1]
Every note marks where a spur of steel has been driven in. [6]
In the farthest west rose the Libyan mountains with their innumerable graves, and the valley of the kings' tombs took a wide curve behind, concealed by a spur of the hills. [10]
Suppose your father went out to walk and a Spanish grandee should jump on his shoulders and make him taste whip and spur, as if he were a horse. [10]
He found it was not common,--that it grew only in certain localities,--and that one of these was among the rocks of the eastern spur of The Mountain. [6]
They had marched upon a camp of our excursionists by the Jordan, and the pilgrims only saved their lives by stealing away and flying to Jerusalem under whip and spur in the darkness of the night. [5]
The lasso he took back with him to the corner and looped the noose over the spur of rock. [13]
When he tried to rouse him and spur him to greater energy his favorite would look at him beseechingly, and though he made every effort to be of use to him and to show him a cheerful countenance it was always with but brief success. [10]
Yet he seems to have been mainly intent upon society and the amusements of the passing hour, and, without the spur of necessity to his literary capacity, he yielded to the temptations of indolence, and settled into the unpromising position of a "man about town. [4]
In the mean time, Dick Venner, who had been dashed down with his horse, was trying to extricate himself,--one of his legs being held fast under the animal, the long spur on his boot having caught in the saddle-cloth. [6]
The spur, in those gallinaceous birds which are thus provided, is generally single; but Polyplectron (Fig. [1]
One acts as the spur, the other as the bridle. [6]
Orion could see the seething turmoil in her soul; he felt that she was arming herself for resistance, and he longed to spur her on to deal the first blow. [10]
There we'll turn the horses free--free to roam and browse and drink--never to feel a spur again--never to be ridden! [13]
Rostov saw how the Emperor's rather round shoulders shuddered as if a cold shiver had run down them, how his left foot began convulsively tapping the horse's side with the spur, and how the well-trained horse looked round unconcerned and did not stir. [2]
As the rider that rests with the spur on his heel,-- As the guardsman that sleeps in his corselet of steel,-- As the archer that stands with his shaft on the string, He stoops from his toil to the garland we bring. [6]
As the rider that rests with the spur on his heel, As the guardsman that sleeps in his corselet of steel, As the archer that stands with his shaft on the string, He stoops from his toil to the garland we bring. [6]
Ulrich's heart stood still, and turning to look back, he saw several horsemen, who were trotting past a spur of the hill around which the road wound. [10]
Olympius needed no spur or encouragement. [10]
Hoping, then, to spur his speech by putting him, in joke, on the defensive, I accused him in my introduction of everything I thought it impossible for him to have committed. [5]
It did not spur him to do anything, to follow the example, for instance, of the young fellows from the country, who were throwing themselves into Wall Street with the single purpose of becoming suddenly rich, but it made him uneasy. [4]
Covered with dust, splashed from head to foot with mud, bruised, tortured as if on the rack, he clung to the saddle, yet never ceased to use whip and spur, and would trust his message to no other horseman. [10]
Under the new regime land was held in severalty, and the spur of individual interest began at once to improve the condition of the settlement. [4]
But now the promontory has risen, the Capo di Sorrento has thrust out its rocky spur with its ancient Roman masonry, and the island itself has moved so far round to the south that Sorrento, which fronts north, has lost sight of it. [4]
It is our only spur, our whip, our goad, our only impelling power; we have no other. [5]
We passed through one a hundred feet long, which leads through a spur of the hill and opens out well up in the sheer wall of a precipice whose foot rests in the waves of the sea. [5]
At the corner of the wall, where the stone steps turned, he saw a spur of rock that would serve to hold the noose of a lasso. [13]
On the evening of the third day Shorland noticed that the strap of his spur was frayed. [11]
A light touch of spur was sufficient to make Wrangle plunge. [13]
I would rather not have written another word than be corralled, bitted, saddled, and ridden by that heartless broncho-buster, the public, which wants a man who has once pleased it, to do the same thing under the fret of whip and spur for ever. [11]
He touched the mustang with the spur, and in a few fierce leaps found himself nearly abreast of the frightened animal he was chasing. [6]
But the buffalo moved slowly-the fellah's song had been a spur to its travel, as the camel-driver's song is to the caravan in the waste of sands. [11]
We saw a man coax, kick and spur one of them five or ten minutes before he could make it cross a running stream. [5]
The first gate he came to he started in; I had neither whip nor spur, and so I simply argued the case with him. [5]
Raish and I have secured 200 out of a 400 ft. in it, which perhaps (the ledge, I mean) is a spur from the W. W.--our shaft is about 100 ft. from the W. W. shaft. [5]
I hear a good deal about doing things on the "spur of the moment" --I invariably regret the things I do on the spur of the moment. [5]
Jen had just given a good-night, and the horse the word and a touch of the spur at the instant. [11]
The heart had felt the pull of the bridle, but the spur had roused it to swift reaction. [6]
We stood one evening on a spur as the setting sun flooded the natural park below us with a crystal light and, striking a tall sycamore, turned its green to gold. [9]
Standing upon the end of a spur, it seems to be safe from the lava, whose course has always been on either side; but it must be an uncomfortable place in a shower of stones and ashes. [4]
Leading the burros down to the spur of rock, he halted at the steep incline. [13]
She must see clearly before her, must know exactly what was going on, and she was not mistaken when she imagined that the reward she had promised the lad would spur him to the utmost. [10]
The spur and burden of the contract are intolerable to me. [5]
Yet, whereas the brave old man nodded to spur me on, with his heavy head, still covered with a cold wet cloth, I called up all my daring, and before the lad was aware I dealt him a slap on the cheek. [10]
If our borders are invaded, it is only as the spur that is driven into the courser's flank to rouse his slumbering mettle. [6]
Given the proper amount of spur, anything in reason can be mastered. [9]
Eben lives on a southern spur, next to Amos Cuthbert, where you can look off for forty miles across the billowy mountains of the west. [9]
He was like a living machine, obeying neither call nor spur, but travelling with an unchanging speed along the level road, and up and down hill, mile after mile. [11]

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