When the Mayor holds the stirrup And the Shrieves cry, God save your honours; Then 'tis but a jump And up goes the Rump, That will spur to the Devil upon us.
Then the hungry Scot comes with spur and with switch, And would teach her to run a Geneva career; His grooms were all Puritan, Traytor, and Witch, But she soon threw them down with their pedlary geer.
The ruined palace lies nestling under a hill, on a spur of which is a magnificent fir tree; behind the palace a garden run to waste and wood, with a few ponds, formed an admirable cover for ducks, which I saw in abundance.
A few miles farther, and on rounding the spur of a hill, the stockade appeared in full view and we sounded our bugles which were quickly answered by a flourish from Kohima.
Barrett, conducted by Captain Williamson, who knew the country, were directed to proceed to the rear of Konoma and occupy the saddle connecting the spur on which it is built with the main road, so as to cut off the line of retreat.
It was ignored, and only served to spur Lees and his detectives on to decisive action.
It, or rather they, for while it is called Mammoth Cave it is really a series of caves, are located in Edmonson County in Central Kentucky, on a spur railroad from Glasgow Junction on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
Some such notion as this had been in my own mind as I executed the plan that on the spur of the moment I had formed.
Mount Casius is, strictly speaking, the termination of a spur from Bargylus; but it has so marked and peculiar a character that it seems entitled to separate description.
He took a spur off the main corridor, and came to a doorway with a small circular staircase beyond it.
He had just spotted Greg Hunter there, it seemed, moving down a spur corridor.
Ye bleed for the nation, ye give to the altar, Ye heal the great sorrows that clamor and cry, Yet care not how oft 'neath the spur and the halter, The brutes of the universe falter and die.
If under this spur they advanced beyond their flanks, then the flanks were to "push ahead!
Possibly the Marshal had set the 25th as the date with a view to forcing our effort under spur of the calendar, while he looked forward to granting the inevitable request for delay.
Railroad sidings must enlarge railroad capacity; more spur tracks must be built wherever we had railheads at the front, and regulating stations which should dispatch the trains to the railheads.
We've touched him with the spur of rivalry, and what could be more calamitous than that?
One body from the conical hill followed the route taken by Jenkins in the morning; another scaled a spur trending downward to the Chardeh valley from the southern extremity of the Asmai ridge.
Ayoub Khan had made his camp near the village of Mazra, behind the curtain formed by the spur described, and about a mile higher up in the valley than the point at which the spur is crossed by the road over the Babawali Kotul.
When the order to quit reached that able officer, Major Stockwell of the 72d was out with a small detachment, maintaining a hot fire on the Afghan bodies ascending by the southern spur from the Chardeh valley.
The guns had no sooner come into action than the enemy in great masses showed themselves on spur and saddle and plain, bent seemingly on an attempt to envelop the position held by the British.
This spur was said to project in a north-easterly direction toward the Ghuznee river, gradually sinking into the plain.
The projecting spur toward Charasiah which was the extreme right of the Afghan position, was held in force, whence an effective fire would bear on the left flank of a force advancing to a direct attack on the pass.
The Urgundab valley is separated on the north-west from the Candahar plain by a long precipitous spurtrending south-west from the mountainous mass forming the eastern boundary of the valley further north.
Where the spur quits the main range, due north of the city, the Murcha Pass affords communication between the Candahar plain and the Urgundab valley.
Every now and then a spur of rock came down through the arid ground, leaving us scarcely room to pass.
She wheeled her mule with a fierce drag of the rein; her spur found its flank and forced it forward.
His horse responded bravely to the touch of the spur but the sand was loose and deep.
Malbone might have done under the spur of the horror and amazement that filled him was checked by a violent fit of coughing with which his patient had been seized.
Her suggestion that the cabin possibly had not been destroyed was a spur to his dulled and stunned perception.
At such a time as this the likelihood of the spur being empty of the machine-gun crew was good.
Some hundred or more feet from the spot where I had seen the two sentries I could make out the spur of the trench, a neatly placed corner from which a machine-gun could rake an attacking force.
Through this spur I picked my way to the communicating trench.
Toward the very end of that spur I went, still on my stomach.
You English are too fond of acting and thinking rashly on the spur of the moment," he exclaimed.
It was one of those rare instances when he acted on the spur of his chum's orders and argued the situation afterwards.
He had the happy knack of making up his mind on the spur of the moment, and yet at the same time forming a fairly sound judgment.
Marian and Lord Humphrey Degge were mounting from the scrap of forest that juts from Pevis Hill, like a spur from a man's heel, between Agard Court and Halvergate.
I spur Hoke the mule into the shadow of a great cloud that drifts lazily overhead, and am grateful for this unsatisfying shade as long as it lasts.
Old Jerry drove that scant mile or two this night under the spur of his one greatest inspiration; and while he drove he talked aloud to himself.
But the rocky spur which supported on its rough back what there was of the town wore a most woe-begone and distressed aspect.
Condoglia was a village on a spur of the mountains, the property, with the bodies and souls of its inhabitants, of a great lord, a marchese.
With the removal of the spur of competition it is admitted that there was a temporary danger of making men dull by giving them too much time for thought or idle musing.
He needed neither loss nor change to spur his sensibility and awaken his recognition of the worth or special quality of what he loved.
The afternoon of July 11, we saw Long's Peak, the first spur of the Rocky Mountains, in view.
The women hugged me good-bye, but when the ranchman's daughter put her arms round my neck, Pod was so jealous that he jammed a spur in my side.
Behind the town is a high spur of the mountain range of Lepaterique, covered with pines, and veined with silver-bearing quartz.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spur" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
