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- noun Plural form of
spurrer .
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Examples
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Every time he hump hisse'f Brer Rabbit slap de spurrers in 'im, en dar dey had it, up en down.
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881
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Bimeby, we hear steps on de peazzer, en yer come a couple er young fellers wid strops on der shoulders, en der sodes a draggin 'on de flo', en der spurrers a rattlin '.
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881
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Bimeby, we hear steps on de peazzer, en yer come a couple er young fellers wid strops on der shoulders, en der sodes a draggin 'on de flo', en der spurrers a rattlin '.
Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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Every time he hump hisse'f Brer Rabbit slap de spurrers in 'im, en dar dey had it, up en down.
Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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Rabbit wuz to git off, en Brer Fox made a motion fer ter stan 'still, Brer Rabbit slap de spurrers into Brer Fox flanks, en you better b'leeve he got over groun'.
Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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"Rush on, ye magnanimous Trojans, spurrers of steeds, for the bravest of the Greeks is wounded; nor do I think that he will long endure the violent arrow, if king Apollo, the son of Jove, really urged me proceeding from Lycia."
The Iliad of Homer (1873) 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1840
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"All de time, bless grashus, honey, Brer Rabbit wer puttin 'on his spurrers, en w'en dey got close to Miss Meadows's, whar Brer Rabbit wuz to git off, en Brer Fox made a motion fer ter stan' still, Brer Rabbit slap de spurrers inter Brer Fox flanks, en you better b'leeve he got over groun '.
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881
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"All de time, bless grashus, honey, Brer Rabbit wer 'puttin' on his spurrers, en w'en dey got close to Miss Meadows's, whar Brer
Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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