They steadied themselves on the silver-mounted Spanish spurs on Oliver's riding boots.
Supper was ready as the three clanked to the house in spurs and chaps, and washed noisily in basins under a gigantic liveoak at the cabin door.
A squat, dark man, with chaps and spurs and Stetson, was making his way across the open space to the continuation of the chaparral beyond it.
While he still resists his pecks become slower, the strokes of his spurs feebler, and his springs lower.
To him that 's dull I do my SPURS impart, And to the coward I bequeath my HEART.
I thought spurs and scarlet were the most fascinating objects in the world to young ladies," Pen answered.
Stag Roosters--Cockerels, showing spurs and hard blue meat, packed in two weights.
Small combs and the absence of spurs give better appearance to the carcass.
Whereupon the gates were thrown open, and St. George, clapping spurs to his horse, found himself safe from pursuit before the first red beams of the sun shot up into the sky.
Then, after he had been invested by the King with the golden spurs of knighthood and had been magnificently feasted, he retired to rest his weariness, while the beautiful Sâbia from her balcony lulled him to sleep with her golden lute.
As soon as some one, more dextrous than the rest, has succeeded in tearing it loose, he claps spurs to his steed, and endeavors to escape with the prize.
Clapping spurs to our horses, we set off towards them at full speed.
At the top end it opened out like a fan which died away in a frayed edge in the numberless small kloofs and spurs fringing the amphitheatre of the hills.
For there, with Africa's contrariness, the highest parts banked up and buttressed by gigantic spurs are most accessible from below, while the lower edges of the plateau are cut off sheer like the walls of some great fortress.
Setting spurs to my horse then, I rode off at speed, trusting to find some gate or gap by which I might effect my exit.
With the energy of despair I lifted her with the rein with both hands, and drove the spurs madly into her flanks;--she rose to the leap, there was a bound!
Mr. de Boots is a person in whom one may see one's face; his upper part is of morocco, and he has spurs into the bargain.
And here we have the nut-cracker's boots, with spursto them.
Spurs are only to be used by those who have the habit of riding, and will not use them at the wrong time.
A jockey whip is the most punishing, but on the Rarey system it is seldom necessary to use the whip except to a slug, and then spurs are more effective.
Don't wear spurs until you are quite sure that you won't spur at the wrong time.
So proudly pricks on his courser strong, pricks on > spurs on 9 And Atin ay him pricks with spurs of shame and wrong.
The spurs were usually buckled on first, and thus came to be regarded as the symbol of knighthood.
He came wearing his armour, girt with his sword, and with his goldenspurs of knighthood on his heels.
At such a call no knight who desired to keep his spurs would dare to hang back, and one and all followed their leader to the shore, threw themselves upon the thick ranks of the enemy, and put them to flight.
Finding himself wounded, the youthful monarch set spurs to his horse and fled; but, fainting from loss of blood, fell, and perished miserably.
The young aspirant was admitted to the honours of knighthood at the age of twenty-one, unless he had previously won his spurs by some gallant feat of arms.
When the news of the death of William Rufus was brought to his brother Henry in the New Forest, the prince immediately set spurs to his horse and galloped to Winchester.
The king was the first to putspurs to his horse and flee.
He grasped it very hard, and immediately put spurs to his horse and galloped away.
However, after dinner we went to the local inn and danced, but unfortunately, I wounded a lady's frock with my spurs so we sought the grill room, an underground place suggesting the vault of a royal prince in a fashionable mausoleum.
I am also going to teach them that if you have twelve miles to ride it is an awful thing to jag your spurs into his flanks and make him go like hell.
Cadoudal put spurs to his own horse and jumped both horse and rider.
The postilion did not wait to be told twice; he started his horses, digging his spurs into the belly of the one he rode and lashing the others vigorously.
They were those of a man elegantly shod, wearing spurs on his heels, for the spurs had left their marks upon the snow.
Roland asked no better; he dug his spurs in his horse's belly.
The postilion dug his spurs into his horse and they were off at a gallop.
Suarez was so much dissatisfied at his advice being thus despised, that he set spurs to his horse and galloped over to the royalist army.
The river skirts the northern spursof the Corbieres, some distance below which it is joined by the Orbieu and the Cesse.
On the other wing is the mass of hills from which the spurs and streams descend: here the Olmutz-Brunn road passes.
There are a number of detached spurs of hills north of the river at Chattanooga, back of which is a good road parallel to the stream, sheltered from the view from the top of Lookout.
Besides the fortifications on Mission Ridge, there was a line at the base of the hill, with occasional spurs of rifle-pits half-way up the front.
The ursus frugilegus chiefly frequents the tangled woods that cover the eastern spurs of the Andes, ranging often as far down as the montana, and never so high as the declivities that border on the region of snow.
They had left the last hamlet--and even the last house--behind them; and were now climbing one of the outlying spurs that project many miles from the main axis of the mountains.
Here it is that Nature teaches and condemns, and still spurs up to further effort and new failure.
Of hard hits and quirts and spurs he had no experience.
The slow jangle of Colter's spurs and his slow steps moved away out of Ellen's hearing.
Then the musical tinkle of his spurs sounded fainter.
Jean's vibrating ears caught the jingle of spurs and a thud of boots striking the ground.
Ellen heard Colter's spurs jangle, as if he had uneasily shifted his feet.
White, crackling frost and cold, nipping air were the same keen spurs to action that he had known in the uplands of Oregon, yet they were not wholly the same.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spurs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
