The 1,017 occurrences of spunk
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I am going to show those fellows that I have some spunk.
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On the bowl o's cutty he scartit a spunk, An' he leggit it doon the wind; Gin his claes would hae fleggit a bubbly-jock, Guid Lord!
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"Very well," I said, with a show of spunk, "give me one single task, that I may not feel as if I had no part in the homemaking.
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Albion Bennet never had the spunk to do anything but tell all he knew.
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"I've got spunk enough and grit enough to bear any load that I 'ain't heaped on my own shoulders, and the Lord knows I 'ain't heaped this.
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'I dunno,' I says, diggin' my big toe into the dust; an' then, I dunno how I got the spunk to, for I was shyer 'n a rat, 'Guess I was thinkin' 'bout mendin' that fence up in the ten-acre lot's much's anythin',' I says.
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Wa'al, it wa'n't the lickin' I got, though that had somethin' to do with it, but I'd never have had the spunk to run away's I did if it hadn't ben for the heartenin' Billy P. gin me, an' never knowed it, an' never knowed it," he repeated mournfully.
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_They_ who haven't even the spunk to rid us o' the d------d pirates, not the spunk to catch and hang one.... Jock, me lahd, we's abolush them before they sail touch our neegurs.... Let them clear oor seas, let them hang _one_ pirate, and then talk."
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"Prudence, you're spunk!" exclaimed Mose, in terms of the warmest admiration.
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If our government had had any spunk, we'd have pitched into 'em long ago.
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Well, Blake Stewart, I did think you had some spunk, but----" "Easy now," cautioned Macaroni.
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Let us suppose you are fortunate enough to have some grit and spunk about you.
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It puts new ideas into your head, an' I feel as if I had spunk enough to stan' it."
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"She's got the spunk, but she needs watching.
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"So I made up my mind I'd got spunk enough, and I'd go right over there and tell Simon Basset I wanted my rope.
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In by the dyke yon briar grows Wi' leaf an' thorn, it's lane Whaur the spunk o' flame o' the briar rose Burns saft agin the stane.
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The kye gang to the byre, lad, An' the sheep to the fauld, Ye'll mak' a spunk o' fire, lad, For my he'rt's turned cauld; An' whaur the trees are meetin', There's a sound like waters beatin', An' the bird seems near to greetin', That was aye singin' bauld.
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"But his spunk's soon out of him, I think," continued the stranger, "and that is like mony a man's courage, that thinks he wad do great things till he come to the proof."
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Well, I don't think you've got much spunk, I must say.
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Here's no place for bashful boys; Like the plague, they spoil our joys.-- Bashful eyes bring rustic cheer When we're drunk, And a blush betrays a drear Want of spunk.
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I gloried in your spunk, Fan."
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Sir Violino, with an air That show'd a man o' spunk, [spirit] Wish'd unison between the pair, An' made the bottle clunk To their health that night.
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The package that I carried was a tart That beat Vesuvius out for sizz and spunk, And when they put me in my little bunk You couldn't tell my jag and me apart.
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None o' them had the brains or the spunk of a mouse, and besides we'd give them a mighty good time of it, all things considered.
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Sir Violino, with an air That show'd a man of spunk, Wish'd unison between the pair, An' made the bottle clunk To their health that night.
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Come, bring the tither mutchkin in, And here's for a conclusion, To every New Light[18] mother's son, From this time forth Confusion: If mair they deave us wi' their din, Or Patronage intrusion, We'll light a spunk, and ev'ry skin, We'll rin them aff in fusion Like oil, some day.
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O for a spunk o' Allan's glee, Or Fergusson's, the bauld and slee, Or bright Lapraik's, my friend to be, If I can hit it!
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In this strange land, this uncouth clime, A land unknown to prose or rhyme; Where words ne'er crost the muse's heckles, Nor limpet in poetic shackles: A land that prose did never view it, Except when drunk he stacher't thro' it, Here, ambush'd by the chimla cheek, Hid in an atmosphere of reek, I hear a wheel thrum i' the neuk, I hear it--for in vain I leuk.-- The red peat gleams, a fiery kernel, Enhusked by a fog infernal: Here, for my wonted rhyming raptures, I sit and count my sins by chapters; For life and spunk like ither Christians, I'm dwindled down to mere existence, Wi' nae converse but Gallowa' bodies, Wi' nae kend face but Jenny Geddes.
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_Spunk_, fire, mettle, wit, spark.
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"Very good," said Tom, laying aside his Euclid; "I like your spunk.
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You got de spunk.
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But none of your sons Has a head for whisky or wenches; and not one Has half my spunk, my relish.
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EZRA: Rarely the shots of the flock turn lowpy-dyke; Likelier the tops have the spunk to run ramrace; And I think no worse ... ELIZA: Her father turned her out, 'Twas whispered; and he's never named her, since: And no one's heard a word.
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EZRA: Ay ... but they'd not the spunk to scoot till I Was blind and crippled.
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Poor fellow, though I pitied him, I did admire his spunk in holding back.
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Susie came back so rejuvenated, with such color in her cheeks, such brightness in her eyes, and so much snap and spunk in her system that Jake Tuttle up and married her two months after she came home.
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Still, I reckon if I'd been nigh on to a quarter of a century gettin' my spunk together to ask a woman to marry me an' had finally done it, I'd a-wanted somebody to know it."
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Our visitor had five badly-wounded officers, one shot through the lungs and hip, and all full of bullets and spunk.
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Bravo!" cry the jolly companions of Tony Lumpkin, when that promising buckeen has finished his song at the Three Pigeons; then follows criticism:-- "_First Fellow._ The squire has got spunk in him.
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Say, I wouldn't have guessed you had all this spunk in you!" he took the time to say, casting her an admiring glance.
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Aye, but it rouses loyal spunk To think of that old tree!
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It was a good thing he did for he soon cried the cinder out and when his eye stopped hurting, he got some of his spunk back again and began to plan some way of getting out of his cage.
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"Three years ago when Dreer came out on the field he was greener than you, and hadn't half the spunk.
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If you hadn't so many with you, and if my men had the spunk of chickens, there'd be a different ending to this," he added, vindictively.
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From the Oak Agaric, "touchwood," or "spunk,"--when cut into thin slices and beaten with a hammer until soft,--is made "Amadou," or German tinder.
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"The Lee spunk is running away with the little pet.
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And then Charley felt sorry he had roused the "Leo spunk," and he told such funny stories that Flora felt very placid and comfortable, and quite at peace with everybody.
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I glory in yo' spunk.
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Av ye had a bit av spunk in yer body, ye'd challenge him to wance."
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Brandishing the squashy missile, he uttered his favorite passwords to good luck, One for courage One for spunk One to take aim And then---- Suddenly he bethought him of an improvement.
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One for courage One for spunk One to take aim And then--_KERPLUNK!_ Those magic words were intended, especially, for use in despatching tomatoes and they never failed to make good.
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You've got spunk enough."
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"Don't say 'spunk,' Nicholas."
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Fat Mrs. Hightower laid aside her spectacles when the invitation was translated to her, and remarked-- "They hain't nobody on the face er the yeth good enough fer Sis, but that air feller's got the looks an' the spunk.
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Mrs. Kendrick and her daughter Kitty possessed their full share of what Brother Roach would have called "spunk;" but there is a large and very important corner of the human mind--particularly if it happens to be a feminine mind--which devotes itself to superstition; and these gentle ladies, while they stood in no terror of Blue Dave as a runaway negro simply, were certainly awed by the spectral figure which had grown up out of common report.
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Any one with any spunk would rather go to hell his own way than be chivied to heaven by such odiously superior beasts...
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"Green for spunk and gray for love.
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But jest as he was goin' ter holler he finds that he's loose, an' all his spunk comes back again.
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He remembered how he had floored Master Weeks, and he had just "spunk" enough left in him to try to repeat his former successful experiment on the new master.
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"It took some spunk to get up there and tell just what a fool he'd been, didn't--" "Humph!"
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and we nearly dide laffing to think about it and by and by Beany got up his spunk and pulled his elbo out and his head came rite down on the table and he jumped up and grabed Beany and hit him some good bats and sent him to bed and told me to go home and never come over there ennymore.
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Scotty has got some spunk, but i gess Tady Finton can lick him now.
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and mother said Elly was crying very loud and holding on to his eye, and so i sent Harry to bed and father said if he dident do ennything wirse than licking that Watson boy i wont complane and if he will get up spunk enuf to lick that boy of Brad Puringtons, he ment Pewt, i will give him a treet.
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Finally I mustered up spunk, went there one day all alone, set the old ruin on fire, and then ran as fast as my legs would carry me to a hilltop half a mile away, and stood and watched the fire.
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"I guess Griz got all she needed-didn't know either of 'em had so much spunk in 'em."
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He said I was a darned independent little piece but he liked my spunk!
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It was not that he lied from malice--the hands said he hadn't "spunk" enough to know what malice was--but sheer mental obliquity led him to lie by preference, unless he saw reason to believe that the truth would conciliate his comrades.
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"My!" thought the girl to herself, "he's got some spunk, after all, to git off such a speech as that, an' to rake me over the coals, too!"
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As she smacked her palms together, she defiantly hissed: "Ef ye had my spunk, ye'd hev knocked hell's delight out of some of 'em."
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"If that ain't spunk and real grit."
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"I'm willing, if he says he wants to try it out!" snapped the aroused Giraffe, who at any rate was not lacking in spunk.
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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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I applauded his spunk and determination, and, at his solicitation willingly joined him in his eloquent rambles.
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There was a terriple atramush amon' the laddies when the can'le was blawn oot, an' syne Sandy strak a spunk an' lichtit his lantern, an', efter a fell lot o' fykin', he got her into order.
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"Hold on a meenit till I strik' a spunk, an' see wha's a' deid," he says; an' wi' that he strak' a match an' lichtit the can'le.
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And the last thing he said before he went out was that he hoped you would soon get spunk enough to write her some letters she "wouldn't dast read out loud!"
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Fighting Mary (Mary didn't go by that name then) came up and took English's part, and whipped Boatswain Bill, and said she'd whip the whole house of the 'Nine Nations' if it had spunk enough in it to come on.
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"You ain't got much spunk, you ain't!
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I have lots of spunk and pride, if I am bashful; and so I never let on to those at home--when I sent them a letter once in two months by the little tug that brought my oil and provisions--that I was homesick.
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Some of the rich houses and great folk pretend to have histories of the auncientness of their families, which they can count back on their fingers almost to the days of Noah's ark, and King Fergus the First; but whatever may spunk out after on this point, I am free to confess, with a safe conscience, in the mean time, that it is not in my power to come up within sight of them; having never seen or heard tell of any body in our connexion, further back than auld granfaither, that I mind of when a laddie; and who it behoves to have belonged by birthright to some parish or other; but where-away, gude kens.
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The reward offered by tuck of drum failed, nobody making application to the crier; but the search succeeded; as, after turning every thing topsy- turvy, the feathers were found in a bag, in the house of an old woman of vile character, who contrived to make out a way of living by hiring beds at twopence a-night to Eirish travellers--South-country packmen--sturdy beggars, men and women, and weans of them--Yetholm tinklers--wooden-legged sailors without Chelsea pensions--dumb spaewomen--keepers of wild-beast shows--dancing-dog folk--spunk-makers, and suchlike pickpockets.
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I had seen the friends of the people,--and the scarce years,--and the bloody gulleteening over-bye among the French blackguards,--and the business of Watt and Downie nearer home, at our own doors almost, in Edinburgh like,--and the calling out of the volunteers,--and divers sea-fights at Camperdown and elsewhere,--and land battles countless,--and the American war, part o't,--and awful murders,--and mock fights in the Duke's Parks,--and highway robberies,--and breakings of all the Ten Commandments, from the first to the last; so that, allowing me to have had but a common spunk of reflection, I must, like others, have cast a wistful eye on the ongoings of men: and, if I had not strength to pour out my inward lamentations, I could not help thinking, with fear and trembling, at the rebellion of such a worm as man, against a Power whose smallest word could extinguish his existence, and blot him out in a twinkling from the roll of living things.
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He gloried in they spunk.
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While the authors recognize the great blessing of anesthesia to the woman in labor--and almost unfailingly make use of it in some form--nevertheless, we also recognize that it would be a fine form of mental discipline and mighty good moral gymnastics, if a great many self-centered and pampered women would "spunk right up" and face the ordeal of labor with natural courage and normal fortitude.
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"You chicken-livered wharf-rat, ain't you got no spunk to answer wid?"
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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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It's the only employ for a man o' spunk, and there's spunk in Mungo Boyd, mind I'm tellin' ye!"
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"I must say I like your spunk, Randy.
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Our spunk wood got wetted by the water, and when we at last reached the shore we were unable to light a fire.
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I therefore kept moving about as well as I was able, and at length reaching the forest, found some rotten wood which I used as a substitute for spunk, and was able, greatly to my satisfaction, to raise a fire.
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He's got some spunk in him, though, by the way he let drive at you, my lad," says he: "that fellow 'll either catch the cat or spoil the monkey.
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They tackled her both at once, and poor Annie, after a six or eight weeks' tussle with them, has just about enough spunk left to cry when anybody looks at her.
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He had "pluck" and "spunk" on occasions, but Lincoln had pure "grit."
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All the spunk, all the energy, had been sapped out of me long before, and even her promise couldn't revive it.
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It's the fellow who has the spunk to think and act for himself, and sells short when prices hit the high C and the house is standing on its hind legs yelling for more, that sits in the directors' meetings when he gets on toward forty.
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Manson was surprised at Bob's spunk.
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Farmers will find a cistern in their house lots or inside the barn a great convenience--but the one near the kitchen is of the greatest importance because the men will not carry water if they can help it, and the farmer's wife, if she has any spunk, will insist upon the water being carried for her or raise the roof off the house, and I don't blame her--the hair on the top of my head is very thin--and scarce.
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"Such talk pleases the old lady, makes her your friend 'cause she likes your spunk, and because of it she'll give you the wind of a grey wolf, the step of the panther, the strength of the buffalo and the courage of a lion.