Sentence examples for his spur from inspiring English sources

As the security guards removed her, part of his spur broke off.

Unassertive, Englishly reticent, a little milky and bland, she became steadily obsessed with his writing — even as she would half-mockingly call him "the Genius" in private — and enjoyed being his spur and amanuensis.

Mr. Knight says that his spur was the realization that filming fashion had previously been ineffective: either an attempt to turn it into an intellectual art subject or to make it into popular television.

His spur was humiliation: French by birth, he had gone bankrupt on the Kentucky frontier, and he decided that his gift for drawing and his affinity for birds could restore his dignity and fortune.

This time the mayor and councillors and other dignitaries turned out in their finest to welcome him, at the spot where legend said his bloodied head struck the same stone his spur knocked as he rode out to his last battle.

Legend has it he was warned a stone on the bridge which caught his spur would soon catch his head.

His announcement got a laugh but his spur-of-the-moment idea paid off.

With his spur-of-the-moment purchase, Hamlin joined a select group of current drivers who also own classic cars.

Argerich is driving a wedge into the system, as Sviatoslav Richter did before her, with his spur-of-the-moment piano happenings in towns scattered between the South of France and Siberia.

He praised Scott's decision to leave the final make-up of the polar party to the last minute, when most recognise that his spur-of-the-moment decision to take an extra man to the pole when he only had provisions for four was a fatal error.

Mr. Obama has yet to earn his spurs.