The 1,017 occurrences of spunk

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"Lord, I applaud your spunk.

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"She is full of spunk--and I do like spunk, Mrs. Dr. dear," admitted Susan.

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I used to hear him say many a time, long ago when he was a young fellow 'Give me a spunky woman--spunk for me every time.'

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With a mighty slap of hand on knee he exclaimed, "I vow you've got spunk, after all--I like spunk.

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"Fancy your spunk!" said Mary admiringly.

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'She's that full of spunk she's bursting with it.

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All the other girls in the Glen put together haven't the vim, and wit, and joyousness and 'spunk' she has.

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Ye may light a spunk o' fire in the red room.'

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spunk, a spark.

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spunk, a spark.

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Ye may light a spunk o' fire in the red room.'

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spunk, a spark.

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He looked for Mr. Carvel to cane me stoutly: But Ivie laughed heartily, and said: "I wad yell gang far for anither laddie wi' the spunk, Mr. Manners," and with a sly look at my grandfather, "Ilka day we hae some sic whigmeleery."

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He's got spunk, but I reckon Hump'll t'ar the innards out'n him ef he stands thar a great while."

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"Hain't none of you folks got spunk enough to carry me over to see the jedge?" demanded Lem; "my horses ain't fit to travel to-night."

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SPUNK.

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"If her brother Jack had a little of her spunk he would not be where he is."

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You know I rather like the social spunk of our Great Middle West!"

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If Sherif Ali's emissaries had been possessed--as Jim remarked--of a pennyworth of spunk, this was the time to make a rush.

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I told Friend Penrhyn the other night that if he had the spunk of a house cat he would get something to fight with, if 't were nothing better than a toasting-fork tied to a stick, and cross the river to Washington; and so I say to every man who stays in Trenton.

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As if to make the ill feeling the greater, too, he told the whole party at one point of the route, "If you-alls had been patriots and 'listed four weeks ago, you 'd every one of you've got a bounty of five hundred dollars of the money my saddle-bags is filled with; but you had n't spunk, so it serves you-ails good and handsome that now you've got to fight for 'nary a shillin'."

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That grigged her properly, it made her very wrathy, (for nothin sets up a woman's spunk like callin her ugly, she gets her back right up like a cat when a strange dog comes near her; she's all eyes, claws and bristles.)

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Folks snickered a good deal, and I felt my spunk a risen like half flood, that's a fact; but I bit in my breath, and spoke quite cool.

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No boy with any spunk would be."

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And having ourselves speedily passed from Greenwich to the Tower, we constituted ourselves eavesdropper, as it is called, to observe what should pass between Glenvarlochides and his page, whom we caused to be admitted to his apartment, well judging that if they were of counsel together to deceive us, it could not be but something of it would spunk out--And what think ye we saw, my lords?--Naething for you to sniggle and laugh at, Steenie--for I question if you could have played the temperate and Christian-like part of this poor lad Glenvarloch.

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SPUNK, slip.

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"I like your spunk," said the doctor, after a pause.

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"I like your spunk," said the doctor, after a pause.

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Ye may light a spunk o' fire in the red room.'

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spunk, a spark.

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I wuz tryin' to make up my mind to go an' see her some time an' tell her not to marry him, but I jest couldn't seem to git the spunk to do it.

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Many sporting people that I know glory in his 'spunk,' as they call it.

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He may get a turn-down, but the boss will like his spunk, and he stands a better show this way than if he dodges back and waits always for the boss to come to him.

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"A sore heel, a mean soul and no spunk have killed more men than whisky" the Desert Rat commented whimsically, as he pulled the weak brother out of a cluster of catclaw.

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He knows the Colonel is trying to get 'is wife away from 'im, and he ain't got spunk enough left to object to it.

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"Have ye no more spunk than that, ye blood-dhrawn calf?"

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If there was any real spunk in the Methodists, they'd spit him out like pus."

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If there was any real spunk in the Methodists, they'd spit him out like pus."

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If there was any real spunk in the Methodists, they'd spit him out like pus."

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Better it should have some human faults than be smoothed out into negative perfection, without the true ring, the spunk of individuality.

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"I knew you had the spunk.

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I think it's just the other way; I never should get up spunk enough."

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"Hoots!" said the bailiff, going up to her, and laying his hand on her shoulder, "I ken weel ye hae the spunk to work till ye drap.

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"I'm going to tell myself; an' if any of you fellows has got spunk, he'll tell, too."

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"But has she spirit--spunk--dash--a spice of the devil about her?"

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This little incident recalls the quiet satire which Goldsmith levels in 'The Good-natured Man,' against just such absurd sensitiveness as Collins had to submit to:-- FIRST FELLOW--The Squire has got spunk in him.

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Well, that is the last glimmer of spunk that I can show to-night."

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Garlic, maybe's not strong enough Well, I'll exert my '_spunk_' So here you have it, 'in the rough,'-- A pole-cat, alias s----k." The Oleaginous Personage comes next with the question, "Do you like Crambo?" which was answered, rather ambiguously, thus:-- "If our last lingo was a _specimen_ Of this most wise and learned game, 'Tis sure that thus not many men Would long be known to fame.

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After passing several hungry days, with no better food to keep them alive than the scrapings of the inner bark of the poplars and elms, which was not very substantial for hearty men, they encamped one night in a thick dark swamp,--not the sort of place they would have chosen, but they could not help themselves, having been enticed into it by the tracks of a deer or a moose,--and night came upon them unawares, so they set to work to kindle a fire with spunk, and a flint and knife; rifle they had none, or maybe they would have had game to eat.

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He never had the spunk to fight anythin' except his wife, but I reckon he's better off now than them that had; it's the coward that gets the best of things in these days."

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He never had the spunk to fight anythin' except his wife, but I reckon he's better off now than them that had; it's the coward that gets the best of things in these days."

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His eyes flashed with the memory of the wrongs that had been heaped upon his father; and Max chuckled with glee to see that after all he had more or less "spunk" in his small body.

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Egad, if the enemy had it, a dozen of old whigamore wives with their distaffs might keep it against a troop of dragoons, at least if they had half the spunk of the old girl we left at Milnwood.

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"Deil's in the fallow," said Jenny, wiping her lips and adjusting her head-dress, "he has twice the spunk o' Tam Halliday, after a'.-Coming, my leddy, coming-Lord have a care o' us, I trust the auld leddy didna see us!"

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Spunk, fire, activity, spirit.

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Egad, if the enemy had it, a dozen of old whigamore wives with their distaffs might keep it against a troop of dragoons, at least if they had half the spunk of the old girl we left at Milnwood.

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Spunk, fire, activity, spirit.

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You have so much spunk, that d-n me, but I think there's some chance of your carrying the day.

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You have so much spunk, that d-n me, but I think there's some chance of your carrying the day.

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Why, God bless her for her spunk and independence, living and visiting, as she mostly has, from a child, in that circle of high-toned and bitter tories.

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I said safe; for as hopeless as some might have viewed my situation, even then, wet, benumbed, nearly dead with cold and exhaustion, and many miles from any human help or habitation, as I was, yet rallying every energy I had left me, and rolling, kicking, and pawing, to put my blood in motion, and regain the use of my limbs, I soon got on to my feet; when, seizing my gun, that I had hurled aside as I went down, I made for a dry tree in sight, fired into a spot of spunk I luckily found on one side of it, kindled a fire, warmed and dried myself, set forward again, and reached home that night; but with feelings towards that dog, sir, that I can never know towards any other created being--not even, in some respects, towards my wife and children.

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So he tightly strapp'd his bag so neat, This soul of spunk and bravery, And said, "If I in this get beat, I will go back to slavery."

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Hiokatoo was buried decently, and had all the insignia of a veteran warrior buried with him; consisting of a war club, tomahawk and scalping knife, a powder-flask, flint, a piece of spunk, a small cake and a cup; and in his best clothing.

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Here Miss Oldbuck re-entered, with a singularly sage expression of countenance.-"Mr. Lovel's bed's ready, brother-clean sheets-weel aired-a spunk of fire in the chimney-I am sure, Mr. Lovel," (addressing him), "it's no for the trouble-and I hope you will have a good night's rest-But"- "You are resolved," said the Antiquary, "to do what you can to prevent it."

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Od, he showed muckle mair spunk, too, than I thought had been in him-I thought he wad hae sent cauld iron through the vagabond-Sir Arthur wasna half sae bauld at Bessie's-apron yon night-but then, his blood was up even now, and that makes an unco difference.

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There isn't anything so lovely and clean and full of spunk and honest and everything as some race horses.

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If they got her it would be a wonderful thing for a poor, hard-working girl who had had the spunk to strike out for herself and make her own way without expense to her father and mother.

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I tried for a second or two to brace up and out with it, but I warn't man enough-hadn't the spunk of a rabbit.

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Brandishing in her hand a spunk with which she had been making the porridge for supper, she cried in a voice that reached every ear: "What's this I hear o' 't!

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A big, thirsty, hungry wilderness, with one or two cities for the convenience of foreign speculators, and a few collections of humpies, called towns--also for the convenience of foreign speculators; and populated mostly by mongrel sheep, and partly by fools, who live like European slaves in the towns, and like dingoes in the bush--who drivel about 'democracy,' and yet haven't any more spunk than to graft for a few Cockney dudes that razzle-dazzle most of the time in Paris.

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No more it was--he was a different kind of man; he hadn't spunk enough to be a bushranger, and it was a better man that was buried for him; it was a different kind of woman, holding up a different kind of branch, that was tattooed on Brummy's arm.

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"Nae fear o' him; thae neer-dae-weels haena the spunk; but a'm expeckin' he 'ill flee the pairish."

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Hopps jumps up and faces Mactavish--a'll no deny there is some spunk in the body.

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"Wha wud hae thocht there wes as muckle spunk in Bell?"

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"Why, spunk-water."

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"Spunk-water!

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I wouldn't give a dern for spunk-water."

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Talk about trying to cure warts with spunk-water such a blame fool way as that!

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You got to go all by yourself, to the middle of the woods, where you know there's a spunk- water stump, and just as it's midnight you back up against the stump and jam your hand in and say: 'Barley-corn, barley-corn, injun-meal shorts, Spunk-water, spunk-water, swaller these warts,' and then walk away quick, eleven steps, with your eyes shut, and then turn around three times and walk home without speaking to anybody.

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"No, sir, you can bet he didn't, becuz he's the wartiest boy in this town; and he wouldn't have a wart on him if he'd knowed how to work spunk-water.

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These little uns has lots o' spunk: Boney's a little un, I've heerd.

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"I never knew that an Irish girl could have so much spunk in her."

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But let them snuff the smoke of battle, Or even hear the ramrods rattle, Adieu to all their spunk and mettle: Your own example will be vain, And exhortations, to retain The timid cattle.

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Well, if the men of this town had any spunk they would finish the job."

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Why, he snubbed 'Zeke Pettingill jest the same as he did me when they had that sleigh ride, and he didn't have spunk enough to hit back.

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Stout Lucy, my maid, is a damsel of spunk; Yet she weeps night and day for the loss of my _Trunk_!

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"For a man who thinks of nothing but his vine-stocks and poles, he has some spunk," said Lousteau.

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"Whaur's the fire o' yer spunk, Stewart Morrison?"

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To have no more spunk than that!

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"And that is lack of spunk."

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She's got spunk enough to waak to Lunnon if she'd a mind.

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