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Imagine the feelings of two superb birds fighting over a winsome browny, to see her—as I have done—walk 98 off with a spurless, half-plumaged young cock!

From The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year by Beebe, William

The wings are long and the tarsus is spurless.

From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section S by Project Gutenberg

The reins fell upon my horse’s neck, I pressed my spurless heels to his sides; he knew what was required of him.

From Lodges in the Wilderness by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

I waved my hat to them in token of farewell, and digging my spurless heels into the flanks of my horse, I ambled down through the biting wind and drifting snow, into the town.

From The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro by Sabatini, Rafael

Captain Whyte-Melville speaks from observation of the risk of the buckle catching in the angle of the stirrup-iron, and says he has never seen a spurless boot so entangled.

From Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-Riding, and Hunting, with Hints upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes by Lambert, Nannie