spur's

Another cazador was hit, this time in the shoulder and the man stumbled down the spur's side.

Sharpe's Escape Cornwell, Bernard 2003

He had concentrated the Riflemen, British and Portuguese, on the spur's centre from where they could pour an accurate fire on the voltigeurs crouching among the knoll's jumbled rocks.

Sharpe's Escape Cornwell, Bernard 2003

They were spilling over the spur's steep edges while the wounded French officer, who had been hit by Harper's bullet, was screaming at them to stay and fight.

Sharpe's Escape Cornwell, Bernard 2003

E'en to one spur's value,/to you shall never damage come.

The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914

Ranjoor Singh saw, too, that he kept his heels a little more than a spur's length off from the divan's drapery.

The Winds of the World Talbot Mundy 1909

Originally the stream struck full against this barrier, swung sideways, and found its way around the spur's free outer edge.

The Book of the National Parks Robert Sterling Yard 1903

I got him by the two elbows behind, and he started like a horse that has never felt even the whip will do at the spur's touch.

In Homespun 1891

"This spur's a twisty piece, and we wouldn't want to take any chances.

red dust Ryn Cricket 2010