The 1,017 occurrences of spunk
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But Sam has now grown to be a crowder; his spunk, too, goes up with his resources, and he don't wait for any body to "knock the chip off his hat," but goes right smack up to a crowd of fighting bullies, and rolling up his sleeves, he coolly "wants to know" if any body had any thing to say about him, in that crowd!
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Blessed was he that invented sleep, says Sancho Panza, but he was a better workman that invented _spunk_.
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All of a sudden I plucked up my spunk, and by a sort of martial command, ordered my limbs to duty, and marched straight for the fire in the weary distance.
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Joe would be confronted with that, and, if there was a spark of spunk in him, people said, he would rise up and stand by it.
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"Spunk" does not express it; for "spunk," besides being _petite_ in itself, is courage in effervescence rather than courage in essence.
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A person usually cowardly may be kicked or bullied into the exhibition of spunk; but the man of grit carries in his presence a power which spares him the necessity of resenting insult; for insult sneaks away from his look.
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I glory in your spunk!" chirped the Doctor as he put Lila's package under his arm.
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didn't Huldy have the spunk!
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He could get no share in the dancing excepting what he chose to perform solus, as there was nothing in that way to be seen in the room in the shape of a reel, nor was there a single tune played of which he could make either head or tail--nothing but "your foreign trash, with neither spunk nor music in them."
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I admire your spunk.
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An' at that moment the Lord's ain hand out o' the Heevens struck the Horror whaur it stood; the auld, deid, desecrated corp o' the witch-wife, sae lang keepit frae the grave an' hirsled round by de'ils, lowed up like a brunstane spunk an' fell in ashes to the grund; the thunder followed, peal on dirlin' peal, the rairin' rain upon the back o' that; an' Mr. Soulis lowped through the garden hedge, an' ran, wi' skelloch upon skelloch, for the clachan.
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It'll be spunk to his zeal.
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"I am sure," replied the smith, "if they hae na they ought, or the de'il a spunk's amang them.
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I'm sure we might gi'e them the use of the council-chamber, and direk a bit spunk o' fire to be kindl't.
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_spunk_, spark.
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She had plenty of spunk, I'll say that for her.