单词 | hotspur |
例句 | “You try telling that hotspur Phaeton why he was reined in, or rosy-fingered Aurora why I had to shove her in the face,” Hermes archly tells the reader. Books of The Times: John Banville?s ?Infinities? and ?Elegy for April? 2010-04-04T21:27:00Z More significant men of his time can be discussed without passion because they are inextricably woven into a tapestry of the past, but this hotspur refuses to die. Evan Connell, U.S. author of Custer history, dead at 88: publisher 2013-01-11T15:48:54Z Did they ever think that they too are traitors, and that they are as legally deserving of a halter as the madest secession hotspur of South Carolina? The Crisis of Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-One In The Government of The United States. Its Cause, and How it Should be Met 2012-01-12T03:00:13.627Z “Oh! is it somebody else ... you don’t mean to say it’s another hotspur applying for a passage in the real Thunder Bird when you start the big rocket off for the moon, eh?” Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl Events temporarily showed that the kaiser concurred more in his view than that of the hotspurs. The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War The letter crystallized my desire to set out at once for Montagu Grange, and from there to take the road with Miss Macleod hotspur for Scotland. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 I can’t even have due respect for them, these indiscreet hotspurs. The Goose Man The young hotspur was cut to the quick, and, forgetting Corsican ways, made the witless blunder of challenging Peraldi to a duel, an institution scorned by the Corsican devotees of the vendetta. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) For he was known to all as a hotspur—a man who acted quickly and seldom counted the cost. Helmet of Navarre The two Georgia brigades, a Mississippi brigade, and a South Carolina brigade, composed mostly of the first volunteers from their respective States, needed as a commander a hotspur like our own J.B. History of Kershaw's Brigade If he really has had a falling out and meets those hotspurs—But I cannot run after him. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig Charles the Twelfth of Sweden, the royal hotspur of all history, and Frederik of Denmark had fallen out. Hero Tales of the Far North Karl is a hotspur whose emotions are always keyed up to the highest pitch; he is never calm and is incapable of sober reasoning. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller This kindness makes me fear my master's head: Such hotspurs must have game, howe'er they get it. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 The hotspurs among the water-patriots dream of a first-class navy which might rival, yes, even surpass the British fleet. What Germany Thinks The War as Germans see it So that the cry "Fifty-four Forty or Fight" meant that these hotspurs demanded the whole of Oregon or war with Great Britain. This Country of Ours But the Southern hotspurs, who understood the vacillating old man, threatened secession and general ruin unless he adopted their program. Life of Stephen A. Douglas |
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