The 1,017 occurrences of spunk
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But Billy Bob's spunk was up by this time and he was all on the side of the resourceful David.
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Perhaps his quiescence, indeed, fostered some doubt of his presence here, for suddenly there sounded the rasping of flint on steel, the spunk was aglow, and then in the timorous flame of the kindling candle, taken from his own stores above, Varney recognized the face and figure of the stately and imperious old chief Colannah.
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It'll be a mean job, fur these teachers hevn't the spunk of a coyote, an' ten to one he won't hev no shootin' irons, so the job'll hev to be done with fists."
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"And you've a bit of spunk.
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"I guess--I guess I haven't the spunk Phil had," Don told himself.
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"If a woman hasn't the spunk to defend herself, she's better dead."
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And then, besides, it seems to be generally understood that you were the one who wanted to straighten things out when you had no idea it was too late, and everybody whose opinion is worth having knows it's easy enough to slip into a mistake, but takes a lot of spunk to stand up and say so long afterwards.
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She has too much spunk for that."
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"Excuse me," said Kernel Cob, for he liked to see anybody who had spunk.
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SPUNK, _s._ a match; spirit; vivacity.
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_To_ SPUNK-OUT, _v.
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"Seems to me, if I was single, and a girl as pretty as Jo--" "Well, I'm glad Ford has got spunk enough not to care," Mrs. Kate interposed hastily.
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To get at the secret of this apparent feebleness and want of spunk in Russia's ruling class one must study a peculiarity of her history, namely, the complete dominance of Russia's development by organized government.
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I will say this thing, too, that my heart warmed to the lad at the very time of it--that he had spunk to speak his mind.
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I like his spunk, but if he had only come to me and said he _must_ go, I wouldn't have said a word; but to go off without bidding us good by--it's too bad, and I didn't think Thomas would do such a thing."
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The old-time mother would have put him down in the old-fashioned cradle, and sung to him, "Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed;" and if that did not take the spunk put of him would have laid him in an inverted position across her lap, with his face downward, and with a rousing spank made him more susceptible to the music.
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But I am surprised to see that spunk is on th' free list.
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Is our spunk industhree dead?
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Is there no pathrite to demand that we be proticted against th' pauper spunk iv Europe?
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I see in a pa-aper th' other day that what was needed at th' White house was a little more spunk.
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Isn't there enough American spunk?
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By the motions of the Chalmetta it was plain that, though incapable of accomplishing any wonderful feat in the attainment of speed, she had a considerable amount of that commodity somewhat vulgarly termed "spunk."
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Forget the mean things I just said to you, but I had to do it to put some spunk into you."
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She wished she had more spunk, like some girls, and could just send him packing.
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"Come on, Sam," said he, "show your spunk!"
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Even Grizel got behind Tommy, and perhaps it was this that gave him spunk to say tremulously, "Wh-what are you doing her?"
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You'll have to git up your spunk and do some courtin'.
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"You're doing what I hadn't the spunk to do.
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I 'low you've got spunk, maybe, and that goes for a heap sight more'n sinnoo with boys.
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It jest takes the spunk all out o' ye.
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you're a stranger, and I may never set eyes on you again; but I take to you, somehow, and I don't mind telling you that I feel as mean as dirt whenever I think of that lamb in that old fox's den; mean as dirt I feel, and yet I aint got the spunk to--the strenth is gone out of my legs," he added, piteously, "these ten years back, and I think some of my sperrit went with it.
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"I wish he'd show a little more spunk, an' stand up fer his rights.
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If you do it, he'll think I haven't got the spunk.
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A chap may be as rough as brick, if you like, Yes, or a mannikin and grow a tail,-- If he's the spunk in him to love a girl Mainly and heartily, he's the man for her.-- My soul, I've done with all you pretty men; I want to stand in a thing as big as a wind; And I can only get your paper fans!
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Having examin'd also several kinds of Mushroms, I finde their texture to be somewhat of this kind, that is, to consist of an infinite company of small filaments, every way contex'd and woven together, so as to make a kind of cloth, and more particularly, examining a piece of Touch-wood (which is a kind Jews-ear , or Mushrom, growing here in England also, on several sorts of Trees, such as Elders, Maples, Willows, &c. and is commonly call'd by the name of Spunk ; but that we meet with to be sold in Shops, is brought from beyond Seas) I found it to be made of an exceeding delicate texture: For the substance of it feels, and looks to the naked eye, and may be stretch'd any way, exactly like a very fine piece of Chamois Leather, or wash'd Leather, but it is of somewhat a browner hew, and nothing neer so strong; but examining it with my Microscope , I found it of somewhat another make then any kind of Leather; for whereas both Chamois , and all other kinds of Leather I have yet view'd, consist of an infinite company of filaments, somewhat like bushes interwoven one within another, that is, of bigger parts or stems, as it were, and smaller branchings that grow out of them; or like a heap of Ropes ends, where each of the larger Ropes by degrees seem to split or untwist, into many smaller Cords, and each of those Cords into smaller Lines, and those Lines into Threads, &c. and these strangely intangled, or interwoven one within another: The texture of this Touch-wood seems more like that of a Lock or a Fleece of Wool, for it consists of an infinite number of small filaments, all of them, as farr as I could perceive, of the same bigness like those of a Sponge, but that the filaments of this were not a twentieth part of the bigness of those of a Sponge; and I could not so plainly perceive their joints, or their manner of interweaving, though, as farr as I was able to discern with that Microscope I had, I suppose it to have some kind of resemblance, but the joints are nothing neer so thick, nor without much trouble visible.
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And indeed, without such a kind of texture as this, which is very like that of Spunk it would seem very strange, how any body so strong as the skin of an Animal usually is, and so close as it seems, whil'st the Animal is living, should be able to suffer so great an extension any ways, without at all hurting or dilacerating any part of it.
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That of Chamoise Leather is indeed very much like that of Spunk , save onely that the filaments seem nothing neer so even and round, nor altogether so small, nor has it so curious joints as Spunk has, some of which I have lately discover'd like those of a Sponge, and perhaps all these three bodies may be of the same kind of substance, though two of them indeed are commonly accounted Vegetable (which, whether they be so or no, I shall not now dispute) But this seems common to all three, that they undergo a tanning or dressing, whereby the interspers'd juices are wasted and wash'd away before the texture of them can be discover'd.
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What their way is of dressing, or curing Sponges, I confess, I cannot learn; but the way of dressing Spunk , is, by boiling it a good while in a strong Lixivium , and then beating it very well; and the manner of dressing Leather is sufficiently known.
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Scarce any other Body hath such a texture; the fibrous texture of Leather, Spunk, &c. (which are there describ'd) come nearest to it That upon tryal with a piece of Spunge and Oyl the necessity of respiration could not be alter'd.
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The description of several sorts of Hair; their Figures and Textures: the reason of their colours, A description of the texture of the skin, and of Spunk and Sponges: by what passages and pores of the skin transpiration seems to be made.
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He wouldn't have the spunk to go right off with it.
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They are the real power behind the throne, although they have not enough spunk to try to oust the Kaiser and tell the people to do their own thinking.
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I knew she would not recall her promise; there was too much spunk in her for that, and this caused me to linger a day or two longer than I had intended.
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By ---," says he, "here is a new case; this fellow has spunk and courage, and curse me, although I give the priests a chase wherever I can, still I am a soldier, and a man of courage, and to shoot down a priest in the worship of God would be cowardly.
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Why the mischief can't you have spunk?"
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"Spunk; how the deuce could you expect spunk from any man in my condition?
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It is difficult to understand you, Mr. Folliard; you told me a minute ago to repent, and now you tell me to have spunk; pray what do you mean by that?"
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"Why, confound it, I mean that you should repent with spunk.
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"Why, you don't mane for to say," replied Redhead, "that he'd have the spunk in him to run away with Bodagh Buie's daughter?
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"Faith, you're right, Rouser; he'd never have spunk, sure enough, to carry off the Bodagh's daughter.
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"Come, now," said Sam, "I'm commissary-general for this day, and, for a miracle, an honest one--fight fair, you wretches--but I don't wonder at the spunk you show, for the rations, I can tell you, are better, poor things, than you are accustomed to.
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"By this and by that," said one of them, "Rtn'tin' Rody will take spunk out of him, if it's in him."
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No; _damnho sherry_ on the charm ever I'll get you till you show more spunk.
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"I know this friend of yours, Rody, but a short time," observed Nell; "but if he hasn't more spunk in him than yourself, he's not worth his feedin'."
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"Why, then," observed another, "who 'ud think that poor die-away Vread had so much spunk in her?
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Sure, now, Jerry, if you have one spunk of common charity in your composition, you'll take me up on your back and carry me home, otherwise I'll lie down on the road, and either die at wanst or sleep it out till mornin'."
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catch me at it--I'd have spunk in me."
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His brother Frank is a good boy, but sure divil a squig of spunk or spirits is in him, an', my dear, you know the ould proverb, that a standin' pool always stinks, while the runnin' strame is sweet and clear to the bottom.
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"By Japers," said Tom Whiskey, as if to himself--looking at the same time as if he were perfectly amazed at the circumstance--"the little fellow has more spunk than Maguire, ould blood an' all!
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The crowd cheered him for his spunk, as they termed it, and when Fred only bowed to the question, and pulled his hat a little more over his eyes, the Californian's party applauded.
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That's all right maybe for pikers--poor devils that have no spunk--but not for 'yours truly.'
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If she might in any way have moulded her home to her own more delicate instincts, it may be that her step-mother need not have had to complain that "there was no spunk or snap to her about anything."
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I thought he might have had spunk enough for that, anyway."
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"Now, Mandy, don't get mad, I didn't mean nothin', I was only foolin' and you began it fust, by throwin' that dirty water in my face, and no feller that had any spunk could stand that."
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Then she said reflectively, "I didn't think the little fellow had so much spunk in him."
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"Got spunk, ain't you?
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Sloat marked the effort with which he cleared away the huskiness that seemed to clog his larynx, but admired the spunk with which the young officer returned the senior's shot: "What is your authority here, I would like to know?
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If you and the rest ain't got any spunk, I have.
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"Sure he did, an' wouldn't anyone with the least grain of spunk in him do the same if he'd been called a coward fer nuthin'?
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This is spunk, and plain speaking.
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"You certainly have about as much spunk as a chicken with the pip!" he said contemptuously.
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'Course you c'n train a boy t' be p'lite, but you got t' be careful, like in trainin' any other animal, an' not take th' spunk outa him.
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"She's got spunk in her, ha'n't she, that little one?" said the miller.
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Having no parents or sisters or brothers, and only enough money of her own for her keep, and no spunk or spirit, she has gone on for years loving an awfully nice chap named Taylor French, with little chance of ever marrying him, and then in hops this Miss Frisk, who asks her why she doesn't quit fumbling and stop fearing, and the thing is done.
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Spunk is all right in its place, but its place ain't at the bedside of a young woman who's got to face the trial of her life.
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And by dallying with them we do not change the ultimate result, but we take away from ourselves the spunk and credit of getting in instead of being kicked and cursed in.
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'Hae ye a spunk?' p. 291 The rough provided him with a match, and he killed some time, while Preston Pans was passed, in filling and lighting his pipe.
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The principal agent seems, however, to have been dead-wood or spunk, pulverized and moistened with some adhesive mixture so that flat cakes could be formed of it.
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Dry-rot wood or spunk is known as _kú me_.
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Turf and dung, although easily managed, did not thoroughly harden the pottery, but burned it very evenly; dead wood or spunk-cakes baked as evenly as any of the materials thus far mentioned, and more thoroughly than the others.
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Understand, citizen, (here I found spunk was necessary), a cape-coaster can at any time boast a full fair of fish; if he draw them from Mr. John Bull's waters, so much the better.
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And being deemed impolite, according to the rules of our Young America, I placed the broad front of my knuckle-bones between his observators, (just to bring out his spunk), and demanded to know what they charged in Washington for a few knockings-down.
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Indeed, Smooth found himself, while in Europe, made an exception to the generality of Mr. Pierce's diplomatists, whom, it was generally admitted, had either shown spunk or turned gentlemen fighters to no account.
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It may turn out that the bombshelling was only to practice a little in that sort of gunnery, and that using up the property of American citizens to illustrate the war principles of Uncle Sam was merely an evidence of spunk in Mr. Pierce, who expected his people to knock under.
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Split meets the schooner Spunk, Skipper Pluck, afore he begun to get to the line, outside of which he could fish according to law.
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Pluck said he seed her steamin' away down to the northward t'other a'ternoon, and so it was agreed that Pluck, with the Pinkey Spunk, should run down in her track.
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And so, instead of the Devastation going in search of him, the Spunk went after her, and, as luck would have it, met her just inside of the treaty line.
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The Spunk pretended to be shying--put on the rags as if he was going to try legs with the Devastation.
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Crowdin' steam like all Jehu, down the Devastation came, as if she were going to smash the Spunk, and blow her to Daniel's dungeon.
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'Now,' said Pluck, 'the Devastation feels kind a out o' sorts, and 'll just knock the Spunk into an apple dumplin';' but she didn't!
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"'Schooner Spunk, of Barnstable, 84 tons burden, Jacob Pluck, master, &c., &c. Mighty formidable combination,' ejaculated the Britisher, lookin' his eyes almost out, and runnin' the forefinger of his right hand over the Spunk's Certificate.
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Just as he, in his boat, was leavin' the Spunk for the Devastation, Pluck bellowed out, fearin' he'd forget it, 'Keep a straight course, _north-east_ about two points east!
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The game being nicely played, the Starlight and the Spunk both run in for a shelter, where the spoils could be shared according to practical diplomacy--not the diplomacy that has been twenty years gettin' the question into an interminable difficulty.
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"'You're spunk; but we'll take a little of it out, by the way of reducing your pretensions--that's all.
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But old fellow, we'll larn ye how the Britishers can't take the spunk out of us Yankees: s'pose ye come on board my craft, lay off yer old notions, and play the good fellow in the jolly free-and-easy way.
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"Better take some one with more spunk, Rod.