How To Use Hotspur In A Sentence
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Hotspur is an uncommon man, whose uncommonness is unsupported by his father at a critical moment.
William Shakespeare
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I seem to remember reading somewhere that Tottenham supporters raised enough money during WWII to buy a battleship for the Royal Navy, called the HMS Hotspur," writes Paris Goursoyannis.
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The apprizer therefore (as the holder of a mortgage was then called) entered upon possession, and, in the language of Hotspur, 'came me cranking in,' and cut the family out of another monstrous cantle of their remaining property.
Guy Mannering — Complete
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The apprizer, therefore (as the holder of a mortgage was then called), entered upon possession, and, in the language of Hotspur, came me cranking in, and cut the family out of another monstrous cantle of their remaining property.
Chapter II
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As well as welcoming Everton to their humble abode they also will be laying out the welcome mat to three other potential Champions League qualifiers in Bolton, Middlesbrough and rank outsiders Tottenham Hotspur.
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The wind was well to the north of west; Hotspur would have to stand far out to weather St Vincent, and farther out still to make sure of weathering Cape Roca.
Hornblower And The Hotspur
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Well anyhow my hero was desperate dan. just in front of Wilson in the hotspur I think - but of course this was long before your friends decided to attack humanity and give you a cause to follow
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Hotspur, putting his arms a-kimbo with an air of defiance, gave a loud stamp with his right foot, and then — marched into another room!
Cecilia
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Mathematically, the best course to take when trying to close on a ship to windward was to keep the ship being chased right in the wind's eye, and that was where the Hotspur now found herself again, relative to the Loire, while the latter, resuming her former course, closehauled, was twenty or thirty yards nearer to her in the direction of the wind.
Hornblower And The Hotspur
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Harry Redknapp undersold it last week, which is not an accusation that the Tottenham Hotspur manager can face too regularly.
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With the competition so keen for the centre-forward berth at Chelsea, Sturridge has shown flexibility by learning how to pose a threat by cutting in from the rightKyle Walker Tottenham HotspurThe right-back is so far uncapped, but Capello keeps taking an interest in him.
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Harry Redknapp lamented a dream occasion that turned sour, a night when "everything went wrong", in particular the sending-off of Peter Crouch in the 15th minute as Tottenham Hotspur crashed to a 4-0 defeat at Real Madrid in the Champions League quarter-final first leg.
Harry Redknapp rues Peter Crouch red card as Tottenham crash in Madrid
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Over the years, Tottenham Hotspur have had a fine tradition of crowd winning goalscoring debutants.
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Leeds United bludgeoned their way back into Premiership title contention after an ugly battle against Tottenham Hotspur at Elland Road.
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Below the title scrap, Roman Pavlyuchenko boosted fourth-placed Tottenham Hotspur's push for Champions League qualification with two goals in a 3-1 home defeat of Blackburn Rovers.
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With the anchor broken out Hotspur gathered momentary sternway.
Hornblower And The Hotspur
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It seemed the gravest danger a hotspur faced these days—and not a slight one, to be sure—was from one of his fellows in a mood to take offense.
Wildfire
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There was a night when the wind backed round and blew foul but gently, with Hornblower out of bed a dozen times, fuming with impatience when Hotspur had to go on the port tack and head directly out from the land, but then came the wonderful dawn with the wind coming from the south west in gentle puffs, and then from the westward in a strong breeze that just allowed studding sails to be spread as Hotspur reached southward to make a noon position with Cape Roca just out of sight to leeward.
Hornblower And The Hotspur
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And that is also why profoundly literate editorialists still use hotspur to mean “a rash, impetuous, hard-driving person.”
No Uncertain Terms
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Sir Alex Ferguson praised Manchester United's growing maturity after the 1 - 0 over Tottenham Hotspur.
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Hotspur's picture of this "popinjay" with pouncet-box in hand, and
The Man Shakespeare
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Even Rotary flourishes primarily as a Cause, as another opportunity for the Southerner to puff and prance and be a noble hotspur.
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In addition Jermain Defoe, an entirely different type of centre-forward at Tottenham Hotspur, has caught his eye again even if he was not in the party for Montenegro.
Wayne Rooney is told a Euro 2012 starting spot is not guaranteed
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But how aware of this were the archers and foot soldiers from Cheshire, where Hotspur had been royal justiciar, and a commander of the King's army against the rebel Welsh?
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On the one hand, planters have been depicted as perennial hotspurs - hard drinking, fast-living men whose hair-trigger tempers demonstrated little foresight and generated even less systematic thought.
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She must have heard, along with the rest of Plymouth, of the arrival of Hotspur in Tor Bay; presumably she had made her way here via Totnes in the carrier's cart — a long and tedious journey.
Hornblower And The Hotspur
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She must have heard, along with the rest of Plymouth, of the arrival of Hotspur in Tor Bay; presumably she had made her way here via Totnes in the carrier's cart — a long and tedious journey.
Hornblower And The Hotspur
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Next came the letters; word must have reached the post office in Plymouth of the arrival of Hotspur in Tor Bay, and the letters had been sent across overland.
Hornblower And The Hotspur
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People have a spring in their step, are laughing and chatting, buoyed up with the knowledge that their team whacked Glenn Hoddle's Tottenham Hotspur between the eyes twice last week.
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Manchester United could go level on points with their neighbours by winning Saturday's home game against Bolton Wanderers, as could Tottenham Hotspur by beating Wolves at White Hart Lane, and Ferguson said it is good for football to see two new teams challenging for the title ahead of the usual threat from Chelsea and Arsenal.
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For many years I have maintained that a production MacAnuff did of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I, with Jon Vickery as Hal, Mandy Patinkin as Hotspur and the late Kenneth McMillan as Fastaff, is one of the few truly professional productions I have ever seen in Central Park.
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The King's lunacy had in the meanwhile become so manifest that Prince William had to be installed as prince regent; the royal power was now in the hands of a tractable adherent of the aristocratic clique and of the military hotspurs.
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The graceful manner of speaking is, particularly, what I shall always holloa in your ears, as Hotspur holloaed
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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The Slovakian defender is still recovering after colliding with Jamie Carragher against Tottenham Hotspur recently.
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Tottenham Hotspur are planning to "repackage" the Olympic stadium and sell it on to the highest bidder, it was claimed today.
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Jones was already mulling over offers from Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur by the time United moved in and triggered the £16m release clause to gazump everyone.
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Spicy Thailand fare was spread on the table with steamy sesame rice, hotspurs and fried beef in oyster sauce.
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The earliest citation of hotspur was in a chronicle a half-century later: “Herry Percy the yonger, whom the Scottis clepid Herry Hatspore.”
No Uncertain Terms
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Next came the letters; word must have reached the post office in Plymouth of the arrival of Hotspur in Tor Bay, and the letters had been sent across overland.
Hornblower And The Hotspur
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Hotspur's picture of this “popinjay” with pouncet-box in hand, and
The Man Shakespeare
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If Hotspur had been the faster and the more weatherly of the two he could have maintained any distance he chose.
Hornblower And The Hotspur
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Luka Modric Tottenham Hotspur v LiverpoolSuperb headers from Arsenal's Marouane Chamakh and Everton's Apostolos Vellios notwithstanding, the Croatia playmaker's vicious, curling seventh-minute purler deserves it for sheer Bobby Charltonesque oomph.51 League goals conceded from corners, free-kicks and penalties by Arsenal since the beginning of the 2009-10 season from a total of 100 goals scored against them in 81 games30 Most goals scored in a Premier League debut season – by Kevin Phillips in 2000.
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We're the terrier at the rat hole, sir," said Bush, coming back to Hornblower as soon as Hotspur had lain-no with her main-topsail to the mast.
Hornblower And The Hotspur
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Every dictionary worth its spurs notes that the word hotspur was the sobriquet of Sir Henry Percy, son of the Earl of Northumberland, killed in 1403 in the rebellion against Henry IV.
No Uncertain Terms
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Hotspur sat bolt upright in the saddle, his eyes narrowed on the hurtling horsemen, and never moved a hand.
