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SISTER THOMAS That's right, Sister Blunt--I glory in yo' spunk.

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"Well, you have spunk!

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In January of this year James had issued a Proclamation in which he declared that the ambition of the King of Spain to make conquest of the Crown and Kingdom of England was manifest to all who had the least 'spunk of understanding'; that to have such a neighbour settled on the borders of Scotland would be attended with the eminent hazard of civil and spiritual thraldom; and that it was therefore necessary to unite all their force and concur with England in the defence of their ancient liberties and in preserving the isle from the tyranny of strangers.

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"Perhaps your mother has sent him after her runaway boy; but whoever he is, I will tell him you are a fellow of the right spunk."

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"I'm not going back to be snubbed by old Gordon; and the rest of the fellows wouldn't, if they had any spunk at all.

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Come, Tom, show your spunk."

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"I had come prepared to take the fifty," he wrote, "and in a fit of more spunk than wisdom, I rejected the whole.

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"I didn't think he had spunk enough to rob a blind man."

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It don't allus take spunk.

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"Parker," he said, "once in a while there comes up in the railroad business a demand for a man who has brains and spunk and muscle all rolled up in one bundle.

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"I admire your spunk, young man," said the postmaster, heartily, "and I hope you'll come through this all right.

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He liked the uplift of that round chin--he remembered that it had seemed to indicate spirit--and he liked spunk in a girl.

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His spunk was up.

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I saw him on Sunday and he was as full of jokes and spunk as ever, seemed to me.

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"So," the woman chuckled, "Phares picked up spunk once and asked you----" "Phares has nothing to do with it," Phœbe said curtly, her cheeks flushing deeper at the thought of the words she knew her aunt was ready to say.

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He said, he called dat spunk.

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***** "Well!" said Captain Bennett, the next day, to his wife, "Delia 's got more spunk!

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"I 'members hit well, suh, dat wuz when me and you wuz down in Gloucester tryin' to git up spunk to co'te Miss Ailsy Mann.

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However, the thing stands thus: they have slandered our country, they have slandered _us_; and if they are permitted to play upon the boards of the _Eagle Theatre_, I shall conclude that we have lost all that spunk so characteristic in a True Born American."

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Thus ran his narration:-- "Ee wur both o' yur mighty green to think thet arter fightin grizzly bar an Injun for nigh forty yeern on these hyur parairas, I wur a-gwine to be rubbed out by a spunk o' fire like thet.

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The rush o' people tromped an' dug all over him, an' he doesn't appear to have enough spunk to stand up for himself.

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But they put spunk into him.

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The Captain once said to Bob Bowie in a moment of confidence that Mr Sorrel was a "mere spunk," whereupon Bob nodded his head, and added that he was no better than "half a fathom of pump water."

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Then, little by little I slipped into their slower ways, growing to love the people for their spunk, and finally coming to feel I was one of them, so to speak._ _I have said everything slowed down: I was wrong.

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Well, well, you've got spunk, haven't you, now?

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My friend offered to bet $500, when old Jack said: "Boys, I'm drinking, and I don't care, fur my spunk's up, and I'd just's soon bet her all the first bet; them tarnal fellers guzzled me out of $1,000 in Cincinnater, and I wants ter get even."

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"Waal, sir," exclaimed Stephen, outdone, "what with all this hyar daily weepin' an' nightly mournin', I 'ain't got spunk enough lef ter stan' up agin the leetlest Kittredge a-goin'.

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Any Tommy'll tell yer a lad wot's dyin' on the field can leave 'is fightin' spunk to anyone 'e pleases."

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When I heard of the daring of the children I certainly admired their spunk, but I couldn't help shaking my head, too, for it is no joke to start a real business, as they are doing," said Mr. White, seriously.

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"Wringham?" cried the big man, "why, I did not think he had so muckle spunk!"

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But every time he threw himself upon me, Amelia, who did not want for spunk, dug at him with the two-pronged fork, and stuck it through so many plies of his mantle till he was obliged to cry out, "Here, lassie, lay down that leister, or ye will hae me like miller Tamson's riddle, that the cat can jump through back-foremost."

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I knew that Charlotte had made up her mind never to marry me----" "And ye took it like that?" he cried; "man, ye havena muckle spunk!"

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"Well," said I, "that's as may be, but I cannot have it said by you or any man that I lack spunk!"

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CHAPTER ONE--IN THE TIME OF MY GRANDFATHER 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 meantime, that it is not in my power to come up within sight of them; having never seen or heard tell of anybody 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 everything 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 pick-pockets.

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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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Warren was delighted with what he called "Lecty's spunk."

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I don't want any man who hasn't s-spunk enough to ask me!"

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If the fellows have any spunk at all, they won't stand this thing."

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"If you haven't spunk enough to stand up for your rights, you deserve to lose them," replied Raymond, disgusted with the answers of those high-toned students.

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"Haven't you any spunk?"

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These indeed shined so brightly in Adam that he needed no light without him, no voice about him; but sin hath extinguished it much; and there remains nothing but some little spunk or sparkle, under the ashes of much corruption, that is but insufficient in itself, and is often more blinded and darkened by lusts.

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He hath no more religion than a spunk(490) of desire; and he sits down with this spark of his own kindling, and the life of religion thrives not upon his hand, Prov.

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... Say, Jake, be you a man or be you a poor dumb critter what ain't got no spunk?"

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"If you got the spunk of a chipmunk you and me'll take a peek at that there packet.

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--"I hardly know which to admire most, your spunk or your milk," I replied.

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A married man has to have spunk."

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"I've got the spunk all right, but you understand how I feel."

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Until in a burst of eloquence a queer little piece of punk Arose in his place and said, "I think we ought to show some spunk.

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And you proved the last one when you took that whipping with the ropes--ah, is a boy poor when he's got the spunk in him?

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"I thought you had some spunk; but you caved in, and took your flogging as meekly as though you had been one of the saints in Fox's Book of Martyrs."

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"You don't talk a bit like Sandy Brimblecom," sneered Richard; "and you act more like an old woman than a fellow of any spunk."

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"That a fellow who hadn't spunk enough to protect himself must submit to be insulted, and to be bullied by those who were wiser than he in military matters."

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"He's a darned old hypocrite, cheating widders and orphans by choice because they 'ain't got the spunk to razoo back, and I've allus enjoyed fighting such as him.

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Now then, starbowlines, show {122} your spunk!'

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And he could be made jealous if you had any spunk about you."

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"I guess I've got more spunk than you have," I said.

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I cried myself to sleep, and next morning I hadn't spunk enough to cook myself a dinner.

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He'd never have got up enough spunk to tell her he wanted her, and she'd probably have married Micky out of spite."

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You're far too easy-going for your own welfare, Mary Isabel, and for your own sake I Wish you had more spunk.

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"I thought you had more spunk!"

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"I'm all spunk.

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I like your spunk.

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I declar' I admire your spunk!

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CAPTAIN: Patch, yer ain 't got spunk ter be a pirate.

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I got a lot o' spunk.

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She had spunk--admirable, if perhaps destructive.

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"It's a good thing I got up spunk to ask for it," mused Joe.

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Consekence is I never got spunk enough agin to leave the farm.

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I'm sure losin' my spunk."

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I'll wager my hat she saw my letter; I like her spunk; she's a thorough Congreve.

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"Nils will be ashamed of me; I haven't got any spunk."

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"The lad hath the right spunk.

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"Spunk's one thing, lady, but you've just bought yourself more hurt than you've ever had.

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"Oh, I'm sorry for her, of course; but as an American girl, she ought to have more spunk."

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"Southern girls don't have spunk, Patty," said her father, with a merry twinkle in his eye.

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"Perhaps you've achieved your spunk since you came North, then," said Hepworth; "for I agree with your father, Southern girls do not have much energy of character.

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"Well, good luck to your spunk," said Denny, "and I never knew the like of it to fail.

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Man, have ye no spunk?

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She was a withered old shrew, with fifty times the spunk of Johnny.

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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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(_See_ SPUNK.)

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SPUNK.

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I admire that woman's spunk.

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There isn't much spunk about him, and he'll soon cry Peccavi!

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He never had any spunk, anyway.

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Captain Bowen cautioned John against being too prone to take offense, especially as he would soon have Indians to deal with, but he secretly rejoiced in the lad's spunk.

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"Ye've got spunk, I swan!" the fellow exclaimed.

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"I like yer spunk, lad, an' I like you, but what I want to say is, that Tom Trout as some calls Fish, will stick by ye till ye get some sort of a shack throwed up, anyhow."

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"With such a pretty little friend to do the teasing all by ourselves, perhaps----" "You'll never get her unless you have more spunk."

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I rather like his spunk.

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He ain't got no spunk left to run away, 'cause he's ben out plowing all day, and it w'ar a shame to drive him to the store.

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He's got no spunk."

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Si doesn't want any one here who shows the least sign of spunk.

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"You haven't enough spunk to be in the catalogue of men."

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Why, the people in this parish haven't the spunk of chickens when a hawk is after them.

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Ain't you got any spunk a-tall?

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Bob waited, hoping that Judd would show the spunk to get up.

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I always said that you had more spunk to the square inch than any other chap I know.

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