hotspurs
- plural of hotspur.
Example Sentences
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I can’t even have due respect for them, these indiscreet hotspurs.
From The Goose Man by Porterfield, Allen Wilson
The hotspurs among the water-patriots dream of a first-class navy which might rival, yes, even surpass the British fleet.
From What Germany Thinks The War as Germans see it by Smith, Thomas F. A.
Events temporarily showed that the kaiser concurred more in his view than that of the hotspurs.
From 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 by Miller, Francis Trevelyan
This kindness makes me fear my master's head: Such hotspurs must have game, howe'er they get it.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew
The diarist ascribes the petition to Papist influence and to "the hotspurs generally."
From London and the Kingdom - Volume II by Sharpe, Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson)
