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am spurring

  • present progressive
    of spur (1st person singular).
    spur
    noun
    a U -shaped device that slips over and straps to the heel of a riding boot and has a blunt or pointed metal part projecting from the back: used by a mounted rider to urge a horse forward by pressing the projection against the horse’s flank.

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I know the capacity and inventive wit that I am spurring on.

From Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1 by John Benjamin Firth