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Definition of the day : « spur »

  • noun incitement, stimulus
  • verb incite, prompt
Example sentences :
  • How can you think of such funny things on the spur of the moment?
  • Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower
  • You gents feed your hosses the spur and leave the thinkin' to me.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • Yet what can I say, for all men know that your valor needs the curb and not the spur.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • He struck the rivet such a blow that he snapped one shank of his spur short off.
  • Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower
  • David Macy's house stood on the spur of a breezy upland at the end of a road.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • Now, then, spur forward, if thou art eager to see thy Leila.
  • Extract from : « Leila, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • She walked a hundred yards or so towards the village on the spur of this thought.
  • Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
  • We scorned to be out-galloped by a Highlandman, so off we started, whip and spur.
  • Extract from : « The Letters of Robert Burns » by Robert Burns
  • Does he know how to spur up his virtue, and put a check-rein on his pride?
  • Extract from : « Farm Ballads » by Will Carleton
  • In the right place, it should spur him on to a second attempt to get into college.
  • Extract from : « Four Girls and a Compact » by Annie Hamilton Donnell