Lives he, good uncle? thrice within this hour I saw him down; thrice up again, and fighting; From helmet to thespur all blood he was.
1786,Francis Grose, “Tilting Armour”, inA Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons,[…], London:[…] S. Hooper,[…],→OCLC,page28:
Tvvo ſorts ofſpurs ſeem to have been in uſe about the time of the Conqueſt, one called a pryck, having only a ſingle point like the gaffle of a fighting cock; the other conſiſting of a number of points of a conſiderable length, radiating from and revolving on a center, thence named the rouelle or vvheelſpur.
I had hardly said the word, when Kit jumped into the saddle, and gave his horse a whip and aspur — and off it cantered, as if it were in as great a hurry to be married as Kit himself.
She is a theame of honour and renowne, / Aſpurre to valiant and magnanimous deeds, / Whoſe preſent courage may beate downe our foes, / And fame in time to come canonize us, [...]
(architecture) A projection from the round base of acolumn, occupying the angle of a squareplinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved inleafage.
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My desire / (More sharp than filed steel) didspur me forth...
1940 May, “Overseas Railways: Acceleration Proceeds in U.S.A.”, inRailway Magazine, page298:
But the latest Santa Fe development, while notspurring the Rock Island to any further acceleration, has drawn fire from a totally unexpected quarter.
2014 November 17,Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version:International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, inThe New York Times[1]:
What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here onlyspurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq.
Are you come, old Maſter? Very good, your Horſe is well ſet up; but ere you part, I'll ride you, andſpur your Reverend Juſticeſhip ſuch a queſtion, as I ſhall make the ſides of your Reputation bleed, truly I will. Now muſt I play at Bo-peep.
1638, Thomas Heywood, "The Rape of Lucrece. A true Roman Tragedy", inThe Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood, Vol. V, John Pearson, 1874, pages 230 & 231.
Clo[wne]. Fie upon't, never was poorePompey ſo overlabour'd as I have beene, I thinke I haveſpurd my horſe ſuch a queſtion, that he is ſcarce able to wig or wag his tayle for an anſwere, but my Lady bad me ſpare for no horſe fleſh, and I thinke I have made him runne his race.
The Pall Mall Magazine, Vol. 33, 1904, page 435.
They haddespurred questions all the morning, his Majestie being so grossly overtaken with two whole nights' feasting, (which meant a surfeit of sausage laid upon a stomach not over strong), that between sick and sullen he bore a dull edge to the business.
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