"Spur" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... forth their clouds of dense smoke, darkening the air until it seemed more like night than day; then on a few miles farther, to the little station known as the "Y," so-called on account of the form of the spur tracks owned by the mining company, by which the ore was brought ...
— The Award of Justice - Told in the Rockies • A. Maynard Barbour
... by some devil or other, that you do not sink under such fatigues as these? For eight whole days we have been riding long stages, and have not been sparing of whip and spur to urge on confounded screws, whose cursed trot shook us so very much that, for my part, I feel as if every limb was out of joint; without mentioning a worse mishap which troubles me very much in a place I will not mention. And yet, no sooner are you at your journey's end, than you go out ...
— Sganarelle - or The Self-Deceived Husband • Moliere
... heavens through, Quick the ray sprang: Unheard it flew, Sped by the touch of an unseen spur. It crumbled the dusk of the deep That folds the worlds in sleep, And shot ...
— Dreams and Days: Poems • George Parsons Lathrop
... also described to us, the 'crooked, lumbering animal, put together anyhow, with a short, thick neck; flat-faced, and of a dark colour, with grey eyes and blood-red complexion; the mate of insolence and pride, shag-eared and deaf, hardly yielding to whip or spur.'[8] Just think how long I have lived at a distance from you, and how all those temptations you speak of have endeavoured to lure me away, not perhaps without some success, even though I myself may not have ...
— On the Future of our Educational Institutions • Friedrich Nietzsche
... thunder-roll was echoed from crag, slide, forest, spur, and basin. The "home of storms" was a ...
— Camp and Trail - A Story of the Maine Woods • Isabel Hornibrook
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