The 1,017 occurrences of spunk
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manliness, manhood; nerve, pluck, mettle, game; heart, heart of grace; spunk, guts, face, virtue, hardihood, fortitude, intestinal fortitude; firmness &c. (stability) 150; heart of oak; bottom, backbone, spine &c. (perseverance) 604a.
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Anne wondered if Jane had also proposed to Nettie for him, or if he had mustered enough spunk to ask the fateful question himself.
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He wished Dora had more spunk.
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"I dunno if I could ever get up enough spunk.
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"Why, spunk-water."
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"Spunk-water!
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I wouldn't give a dern for spunk-water."
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Talk about trying to cure warts with spunk-water such a blame fool way as that!
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You got to go all by yourself, to the middle of the woods, where you know there's a spunk- water stump, and just as it's midnight you back up against the stump and jam your hand in and say: 'Barley-corn, barley-corn, injun-meal shorts, Spunk-water, spunk-water, swaller these warts,' and then walk away quick, eleven steps, with your eyes shut, and then turn around three times and walk home without speaking to anybody.
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"No, sir, you can bet he didn't, becuz he's the wartiest boy in this town; and he wouldn't have a wart on him if he'd knowed how to work spunk-water.
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I tried for a second or two to brace up and out with it, but I warn't man enough-hadn't the spunk of a rabbit.
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"Now that is what I call spunk, Elnora!
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"My friend," she began, with a new note of impressiveness in her voice, "if you'll pardon my saying it, you haven't got the spunk of a mouse.
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"So you've run off," he continued, after a pause, "I like your spunk,--just what I should have done myself.
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I knew you had spunk."
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Of course there's no denyin' That it ain't so easy tryin' To grin and grip your rifle by the butt, When the 'ole world rips asunder, And you sees yer pal go under, As a bunch of shrapnel sprays 'im on the nut; I admit it's 'ard contrivin' When you 'ears the shells arrivin', To discover you're a bloomin' bit o' spunk; But, my lad, you've got to do it, And your God will see you through it, For wot 'E 'ates is funk, funk, funk.
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"If Willy Fraser had had as much spunk as Peter, Miss Cecily King mightn't be so low spirited," quoth Dan, significantly.
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I haven't enough spunk," confessed Cecily with a blush.
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It seems it didn't-though how much was pure missionary zeal and how much just plain King spunk I'm doubtful.
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How did he ever manage to get up enough spunk to ask her to marry him?"
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An' at that moment the Lord's ain hand out o' the Heevens struck the Horror whaur it stood; the auld, deid, desecrated corp o' the witch-wife, sae lang keepit frae the grave and hirsled round by deils, lowed up like a brunstane spunk and fell in ashes to the grund; the thunder followed, peal on dirling peal, the rairing rain upon the back o' that; and Mr. Soulis lowped through the garden hedge, and ran, wi' skelloch upon skelloch, for the clachan.
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"Nils will be ashamed of me; I haven't got any spunk."
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It was even known to brag of what it called my "spunk," and perhaps it was this quality, rather than any other, which I most needed in that particular parish at that time.
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"Just think; for the first time in years this old place is to know the touch of a woman's hand--and that's what it hasn't known for almost twenty years, except for those few short months six years ago when a dark-eyed girl and a little gray kitten (that was Spunk, your predecessor, you know) blew in and blew out again before we scarcely knew they were here.
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Oh, there was a kitten, too, I believe, 'Spunk,' who added to the gayety of nations."
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"And Spunk, too!
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Is she going to bring a Spunk?"
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"There he stood with his pink just as I did--only he had a brown beard, and he didn't have Spunk--and I had to telephone to prepare folks, just as you did.
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As if I were going to have such a bunch of independent moderation as you masquerading as an understudy to my frisky little Spunk!"
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"The original and only Spunk," he announced.
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"Kate told me, after you spent the first day with her, that you graciously informed her that little Kate was almost as nice as Spunk.
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But then," and she laughed softly, "really, Aunt Hannah, that was the prettiest thing I knew how to say, for I considered Spunk the top-notch of desirability."
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"I think I should have liked to know Spunk," smiled Marie from the other side of the sewing table.
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There's no a hair on ayther o' the Weirs that hasna mair spunk and dirdum to it than what he has in his hale dwaibly body!
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Spunk, spirit, fire.
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The 'squire has got spunk in him.
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He's got spunk, but I reckon Hump'll t'ar the innards out'n him ef he stands thar a great while."
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There's two kinds of poor--those that are working hard and saving their money and getting up out of the dirt, and those that haven't got no spunk or get-up.
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Whate'er the hour, whate'er the weather, John kept himsel' wi' mistened leather An' kindled spunk.
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Yes--that backwoods life, for anybody with a spark of spunk, is simply being dead and knowing it."
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"Not a gleed of fire, then, except the bit kindling peat, and maybe a spunk in Mysie's cutty-pipe," replied Caleb.
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then the castle's gane out like an auld wife's spunk?"
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"I told her if her grandfather had any spunk she'd git an old-fashioned hidin' for behavin' that way.
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"But she had spunk while it lasted....
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Go tell her, Dick... And have some spunk about it!"
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"Now for some spunk!" he said, under his breath.
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That would be more than spunk.
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He's pretty near wild with narvousness, but he's got too much spunk to leave his fam'ly, an' go off an' hide from creatures like you.
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That's the meaning o' Labour unrest, as they call it, and it's a good thing, says I, for if Labour didna get its leg over the traces now and then, the spunk o' the land would be dead in it, and Hindenburg could squeeze it like a rotten aipple.'
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Have you one of those rare and valuable curiosities called a spunk, Mr McCaskie?'
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Spunk .]
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See Amadou , and Spunk .
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Fungus , Spunk .]
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), n. See Spunk .
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Spunk (spŭ&nsm;k), n. [Gael.
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An inflammable temper; spirit; mettle; pluck; as, a man of spunk .
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A lawless and dangerous set, men of spunk , and spirit, and power, both of mind and body.
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Spunk"y (?
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Full of spunk; quick; spirited.
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I like your spunk," said Paul, heartily.
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But noo I'm auld, and weel I ken We're made alike o' gowd and mire; There's saft bits in the stievest men, The bairnliest's got a spunk o' fire.
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That fireplace-those big stones-I was soft, then, a little, anemic, alcoholic degenerate, with the spunk of a rabbit and about one per cent as much stamina, and some of those big stones nearly broke my back and my heart.
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"Dangnation take it!" he used to say, "I don't git up enough spunk to cut a heifer out o' the herd until somebody else has roped her and slapped his brand onto her.
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'Damme, but the lad has some spunk in him, too.
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She showed me the letters of another individual, too, the unfortunate Mr. Green, who had not the courage, or, as she expressed it, the 'spunk,' to plead his cause in person, but whom one denial would not satisfy: he must write again and again.
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Aint got no spunk left.
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"I do wish she had some spunk," she muttered complainingly, not thinking that Evadna might hear her.
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Not one of them had half the spunk of this or that burglar he had known.
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You want to show 'em you've got some spunk!"
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But you've sure got the spunk.
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Cloete looked so savage as he went to and fro that he hadn't the spunk to tackle him; but George seemed a softer kind to his eye.
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He catches hold of him by the shoulders and begins to shake him: Damn you--if you had had the sense to know what to say to your brother, if you had had the spunk to speak to him at all, you moral creature you, he would be alive now, he shouts.
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You've got spunk, as you Yanks s'y, an' I like yer in a w'y.
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Miss Hammond is--is--" "Shore she is," interrupted Nels; "but she's got a damn sight more spunk than you think she has, Gene Stewart.
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Hasn't got the spunk!"
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Got all the spunk in the world, and you could not get him to squeal or double cross in a million years."
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"She certainly has spunk, eh, Sheldon?"
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The teacher would send his pets out to get switches, and part of our division--we girls, of course--would begin to weep; while those who had spunk would spit on their hands, clench their fists, and "dare 'em to bring them switches in!"
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'Pink-your-Doublet' and 'Slit-your-Trunk,' In brawl and skirmish they show their spunk, Give rendezvous in broil and fray; 'Pink-your-Doublet' and 'Slit-your-Trunk' Are their gentlest sobriquets!
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O for a spunk o' Allan's glee, Or Fergusson's the bauld an' slee, Or bright Lapraik's, my friend to be, If I can hit it!
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Recitativo The caird prevail'd--th' unblushing fair In his embraces sunk; Partly wi' love o'ercome sae sair, An' partly she was drunk: Sir Violino, with an air That show'd a man o' spunk, Wish'd unison between the pair, An' made the bottle clunk To their health that night.
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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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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 kenn'd face but Jenny Geddes, Jenny, my Pegasean pride!
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Spunk, a match; a spark; fire, spirit.
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I never saw any mortal man look as that pernickity personage, the bailie, did at this joke, but I suppressed my own feelings; while the bailie, like a bantam cock in a passion, stotted out of his chair with the spunk of a birslet pea, demanding of Mr M'Queerie an explanation of what he meant by the insinuation.
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Some there were, I shall here mention, who said that the expulsion of the players was owing to what I had heard anent the intromission of my nephew; but, in verity, I had not the least spunk or spark of suspicion of what was going on between him and the miss, till one night, some time after, Richard and the young laird of Swinton, with others of their comrades, forgathered, and came to high words on the subject, the two being rivals, or rather, as was said, equally in esteem and favour with the lady.
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These discourses, which I continued for sometime, had no great effect on the men; but being prepared in a familiar household manner, they took the fancies of the young women, which was to me an assurance that the seed I had planted would in time shoot forth; for I reasoned with myself, that if the gudeman of the immediate generation should continue free-thinkers, their wives will take care that those of the next shall not lack that spunk of grace; so I was cheered under that obscurity which fell upon Christianity at this time, with a vista beyond, in which I saw, as it were, the children unborn, walking on the bright green, and in the unclouded splendour of the faith.
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I find a record showing there were seventeen cows on the farm in 1790, and for the benefit of some of the members of the younger generation who live on farms, here are their names: Cerloo, Red-heifer, Spotty, Debro, Beauty, Madge, Lucy, Daisy, White-face, Mousie, Dun, Rose, Lady Cherry, Black-eye, Spunk and Roan.
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You've got spunk an' fight.
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"I know it; but they did," declared Old Tom, "and of course no gal of any spunk'll stand that.
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"Why, there now-there now!" retorted Elliot; "did I not say it was nae want o' spunk that made ye sae mim?-Weel, weel, I meant nae offence; but there's just ae thing ye may notice frae a friend.
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"I didn't think she had that much spunk--for it does take spunk to attempt anything like this in the dark.
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Spunk, real, Simon-pure spunk, started somewhere in Patty and coursed through her blood like wine.
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Sis has got spunk, once you stir her up.
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Also, take it from me, he's all spunk.
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It was the fresh cats he used, the ones with spunk and spirit... until they lost all spunk and spirit or sickened and died.