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  • It was plain to me that the pair of them, spineless and spunkless, were afraid of the men they were supposed to boss.

    CHAPTER V 2010

  • Nor are our three Horn Gypsies, the storm-visitors with the dreaming, topaz eyes, spunkless.

    CHAPTER XXXIX 2010

  • Are we a spunkless nation of weaklings, cowards and wimps that cannot produce a collection of brave, innovative reform crusaders to the Gravitate together, to provide an alternative no nonsense political opposition alliance to commandingly "Pick up the sceptre" and give direction?

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • It was plain to me that the pair of them, spineless and spunkless, were afraid of the men they were supposed to boss.

    Chapter 5 1914

  • Nor are our three Horn Gypsies, the storm-visitors with the dreaming, topaz eyes, spunkless.

    Chapter 39 1914

  • Nor are our three Horn Gypsies, the storm-visitors with the dreaming, topaz eyes, spunkless.

    The Mutiny of the Elsinore Jack London 1896

  • It was plain to me that the pair of them, spineless and spunkless, were afraid of the men they were supposed to boss.

    The Mutiny of the Elsinore Jack London 1896

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