The 1,017 occurrences of spunk

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Yo've got no more spunk nor a moultin hen.

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Ay--just at the time to show spunk, if you'd got any-- Kickt him and jawed him and _lagged_[6] him to Botany!

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He had shown less head than he might have shown in planning the scheme, and less spunk than he should have shown in pushing it.

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'It takes a heap of spunk, I reckon, to go to them furren fields, but I kalkerlate it often takes jist as much to stay to hum, feed pigs, hens, an' look after a hull batch of children.

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But when men are too scart an' heven't as much spunk as a chicken jist outer the shell, what else is thar to do?

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Now kin ye tell me, Mr. Bishop, why the Lord made some people men instead of makin' 'em chickens fer all the spunk they've got?"

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"But I saw a spunk o' fire fa' into your bosom!

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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 that 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 up 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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"My goodness, Warble, I didn't know you had so much spunk.

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But he sure has grit and spunk to ride on with that dose in him."

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Well, back we started, for my spunk was up; and, beside that, I had left my hat, handkerchief, dinner, and memorandum book, and was bound to have them.

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"I'se feared I ain't got de spunk, Marse Robert."

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Therefore, in jolly chorus now, Let's chaunt it altogether, And let each cull's and doxy's heart [6] Be lighter than a feather; And as the kelter runs quite flush, [7] Like _natty_ shining _kiddies_, To treat the coaxing, giggling brims, [8] With spunk let's post our _neddies_; [9] Then we'll all roll in _bub_ and _grub_, [10] Till from this ken we go, [11] Since rowling Joe's tuck'd up with Moll, And Moll's tuck'd up with Joe.

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Yes, that tweak the salon disappointment gave him doesn't seem to have taken all the spunk out of him.

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I like your spunk.

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More memorable perhaps was an itinerant match-seller known to Thrums and the surrounding towns as the literary spunk-seller.

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

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"If they'd all had spunk enough to come," said Barton, "we might ha' made four parties, and gone out on each road.

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She smiled indulgently at Jane's outburst of spunk.

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I should want a beau of mine to have a little more spunk than that."

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'We're wantin a bit o' a can'le, and a spunk or twa, mother,' said Kirsty.

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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-risin' like half flood, that's a fact; but I bit in my breath, and spoke quite cool.

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

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

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'She 'ain't got no mother,' I says, 'nor as good as none, an' if she 'ain't spunk enough to look out for herself, somebody's got to look out for her.'

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He was Susan's widowed brother-in-law, and the neighbors said he was clever, but hadn't no more spunk 'n a wet rag.

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It didn't hurt him a bit, but he ripped out an awful oath at me, and called me and my mother by a name that no man with a spark of spunk in him would stand for a minute.

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She is one of the relations on my side, and I guess I have got a few rights left, and a little spunk."

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"Yes," sez I, sadly, "you have got the spunk."

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She is one of the relations on my side, and I guess I have got a few rights left, and a little spunk."

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"Yes," sez I, sadly, "you have got the spunk."

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Weel, this kin' o' wark, an' a ticht line, began for tae tak' the spunk oot o' the saumon, an' I was thinkin' it was a quieston o' a few meenits whan I wad be in him wi' the gaff; but my birkie, near han' spent though he was, had a canny bit dodge up the sleeve o' him.

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The huntsmen rubbed him with snow and poured wine in his mouth; finally the head huntsman, Mrokota of Mocarzew ordered them to put him on a mantle and to stop the blood with soft spunk from the trees.

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If you and Peter will do me the 'cap-sheaf favour, as he would say, you'll dust up and _spunk_ up, and the very first hint that comes--'cause it's coming--at the very first hint of how Miss Leslie would love to take care of the dear little darling awhile, smash down with the nix!

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"I didn't know Sissy had so much spunk," he muttered, panting in her wake at last across the shinn-oak prairie.

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"I guess I wouldn't never 've got up the spunk to--to tell Angie what I did to-night, 'f it hadn't been we was talkin' 'bout your engagement to Josie.

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But I don't deny Sylvia's real pretty an' generous, an' I like her spunk.

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And you didn't even have the spunk to go to Mr. Haight when he sent for you about the suit."

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"They've plenty of spunk, but I can tell you they make tracks for their holes if they hear one of those things bark."

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She's fagged out; but full of spunk yet.

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Have you no spunk at all in your composition?

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"Well, the spunk and the certificate finished the captain.

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Then the Duchess got up her Dutch spunk, and spoke out pretty freely, saying as much as if LEOPOLD were a tame sort of poodle, and that she ought to have been born to wear breeches, just to show him how a man should act in a great crisis like the present.

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I envy him his spunk and go.

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Why, if you boys had any natchral spunk you'd have the thief strung up by now."

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Finally the woman worked up spunk enough to do what she had been dying to do for years.

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"I like your spunk.

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Heart sound, like hard oak--mind, like spunk--burn quick, no too much strong."

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They won't believe that the Cabinet has any spunk until they see the proclamation signed by you.

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Whereat Yussuf Dakmar suddenly assumed a sneering tone of voice, saying that he preferred men for his part with spunk enough to do such work themselves, and there was an argument, they protesting and he mocking them, until at last this man, whose neck the glass cut, demanded of him whether he, Yussuf Dakmar, was not in truth an empty boaster who would flinch at bloodshed.

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But remember, while he means all right, he may not have the spunk to keep his promise not to drink."

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manliness, manhood; nerve, pluck, mettle, game; heart, heart of grace; spunk, guts, face, virtue, hardihood, fortitude, intestinal fortitude; firmness &c. (stability) 150 ; heart of oak; bottom, backbone, spine &c. (perseverance) 604.1 .

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manliness, manhood; nerve, pluck, mettle, game; heart, heart of grace; spunk, guts, face, virtue, hardihood, fortitude, intestinal fortitude; firmness &c (stability) 150; heart of oak; bottom, backbone, spine &c (perseverance) 604.1. resolution &c (determination) 604; bulldog courage.

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spunk: - courage 861 N. spur: - convexity 250 N. - motive 615 V. - sharpness 253 N. - motive 615 N. spurious: - error 495 Adj.

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I mustered up spunk enuff ter speak to the feller, and he told me 'twas a tame bar, thet belonged ter him, thet hed got loose thet day, and he'd bin up a-findin' him.

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The man she is to marry seems to have neither nous nor spunk to defend her.

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I don't believe," she added after a pause, "that BLINKSOP'S got spunk enough to contest it."

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They saw that she was moving about as if she were intent upon domestic work; and, by-and-by, there she was busy with coals and sticks brought from their respective places, putting on the fire, which she lighted with the indispensable spunk applied to the spark in the tinder-box.

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Oh, I know the kind-afraid of their own shadows, and no more spunk in them than in so many sheep.

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"You 've got spunk and you 're not afraid to show it."

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The poor boy was so laughed at for days by the whole Academy that his spunk was finally aroused.

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Maria Perkins, from the limb where she hung by her knees, responded, "Yup, my Uncle Eben says he likes Judy's spunk."

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Miss Crilly insists that if it hadn't been for Miss Twining's "martyrdom" we never should have had "spunk" enough to go to Mr. Randolph with our awful story.

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Ratcliffe followed her, so impressed was he by her "spunk," he advised her as to her proceedings, to find a friend to speak for her to the king--the Duke of Argyle, if possible--and wrote her a line or two on a dirty piece of paper, which would be useful if she fell among thieves.

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"He certainly's got more spunk in him than I gave him credit for!

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she ain't got much spunk left.

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You can call this spunk if you choose.

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But my spunk has got a backbone of its own and that is deep-seated conviction, that this is a holy war, and that God himself sanctions it.

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"It rather knocked Sylvester out, because it was a kind of spunk he'd never met, and he told Jenks-Smith about it.

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They haven't spunk enough to believe what they know.

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A little spirit and "spunk" would go a great way towards setting the world right.

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Why, ef the Republicans ever should git Andy Johnson or some one to lend 'em the wit An' the spunk jes' to mount Constitootion an' Court With Columbiad guns, your real ekle-rights sort, Or drill out the spike from the ole Declaration Thet can kerry a solid shot clearn roun' creation, We'd better take maysures for shettin' up shop, An' put off our stock by a vendoo or swop.

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It was rather a difficult matter to light a fire, but among the underbrush, in a wild, undisturbed spot, there will always be found some fragments of dried branches, and tufts of grass which the rain has not reached, and by the assistance of the spunk, or light-wood, with which travellers always go well provided, a comforting fire was at length blazing brightly.

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"That's it," said Case, "and I glory in his spunk.

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I glory in your pluck and spunk," said Case, "and I think of your performance as Major Noah said of Adam and Eve: 'As touching that first kiss,' said he, 'I have often thought I would like to have been the man who did it; but the chance was Adam's.'"

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Old Marse war trying to break him in, but dat fellow war spunk to de backbone, an' when he 'gin talkin' to him 'bout savin' his soul an' gittin' to hebbin, he tole him ef he went to hebbin an' foun' he war dare, he wouldn't go in.

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I jis' glories in her spunk."

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I hadn't no spunk left; so I married her after their fashion, and I liked her well enough; and she was my wife, after all.

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Her father had some spunk and took Sam up, but he wuz always sly and looked ahead, and he proved that she wuz a day or two older than the age of consent, and he got let off triumphant and her father had to pay the cost, besides the funeral expenses, and grave stun.

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"No," he said suddenly, "you've got the physical strength and you've got the spunk to lick creation, but what you haven't got is zeal.

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Say, Luke, I don't think Cradock is overweighted with spunk, never have thought so.

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For I wanted something stronger than mother-love--precious though that is--to brace me up and put some spunk into me just then.--Sir Charles was campaigning in Afghanistan, and this Calcutta paper sang his praises to a rousing tune.

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She sat in the one rocking-chair under the mesquite tree and crocheted lace and talked comfortably about Holly and her chickens in the same breath, and frankly admired Helen May's "spunk" in living out alone like that.

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Frank admired her "spunk," even though her sympathies were enlisted in a bad cause.

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I went and listen'd at the door, As I had often done before; I found the Juniors in a high rant, They call'd the President a tyrant; And said as how I was a fool, A long ear'd ass, a sottish mule, Without the smallest grain of spunk; So I concluded they were drunk.

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"Nor of me, neither," declared Iggy, who seemed to have recovered all his spunk and spirit.

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I know, but Sam ought to have spunk to face 'em.

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Say, you fellers ain't got spunk enough to keep hoss flies off a you.

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I thought you hadn't spunk enough to gallup through 'em on your own accord," said Sneak, looking at the pony, and knowing that he would follow the steed always, if left to his own inclination.

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If the influence of a great majority of the women of that day was thrown on the side of slavery, as was undoubtedly the case, the minority largely made up for the disparity of numbers by the spunk and aggressiveness of their demonstrations.

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spunk, n. touchwood, punk, amadou.

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spunk, n.

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touchwood, n. punk, tinder, agaric, spunk.

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"Well, now," chuckled Welton, as he gathered up the reins, "who'd have thought old Larsen could scare up the spunk!"

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"I didn't think old Larsen had the spunk," he repeated after a time.

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The old fellow's spunk was up.

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He had more spunk than a hundred country dogs--took charge of the whole line of march, ran to see the first in the line, then back to the last, and barked to haul him up; then, when he knew what hut I occupied, would not let a country cur come in sight of it, and never stole himself.

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Why, ef the Republicans ever should git Andy Johnson or some one to lend 'em the wit An' the spunk jes' to mount Constitootion an' Court With Columbiad guns, your real ekle-rights sort, 130 Or drill out the spike from the ole Declaration Thet can kerry a solid shot clearn roun' creation, We'd better take maysures for shettin' up shop, An' put off our stock by a vendoo or swop.

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He hasna the spunk o' a rabbit.

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