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Plants that form rootstocks can be spurred to regrowth after several years through tillage.
This spurred him to work on lasers, a necessary piece of equipment for his measurement.
The listing spurred efforts to protect and restore habitat and to breed and reintroduce the species.
He reached around me, grasping the horse's reins, and spurred the creature into a gallop.
As if spurred on by this, Peebles upped the ante, taking two consecutive strikes against the head.
Perhaps spurred by the era of Republican dominance and a reassertive ruling class, historians have given new attention to the plantocracy.
But surging goatgrass and declining rainfall combined to confound the plan and spurred him to look for a new spring crop.
These startling revelations spurred the Army's inspector general to launch an investigation to determine the facts.
Last year's disappointment at failing to reach the final of the 400m has spurred him to greater effort.
This, in turn, has spurred controversy concerning the extent to which transposable elements contribute to host evolution.
Each year millions of smokers attempt to quit en masse, spurred on by the annual health awareness campaign.
To their credit, many in the neighborhood, both black and white, were spurred to action.
She said it was the very happiness and stability of her upbringing that spurred her to investigate her personal history.
This conquest through biocontrol has spurred the search for other insects to match the range of climates where the water hyacinth thrives.
Environmental and safety concerns have spurred opposition in some coastal communities.
The incident on the pilot boat spurred harbour bosses to serve an injunction on the striking boatmen, preventing them from a repeat protest.
The battles between the Rock and the Cobra spurred the fascination of the public.
Croft stuffed the letter back in his pocket and, in ill humour, mounted up and spurred his horse back to Town.
The zygomorphic, pentamerous and spurred flowers are approximately 15 x 12 mm in diameter.
The players were spurred on and in the remaining 16 minutes displayed tremendous aggression in their approach for a goal clincher.
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Examples from Classical Literature
As I looked six spearmen started out and spurred full speed at our bashi-bazouk, who was some two hundred yards behind us.
It was while he paused there indecisively that a sight met his eye which spurred hesitancy to immediate action.
He thumped him in the shoulders and spurred him when he whirled, To show them flunky punchers that he was the wolf of the world.
Lastly, linaria produces two kinds of peloric flowers, one having simple petals, and the other having them all spurred.
At that moment she could not have spurred her pony had the lurker in the brush sprung forth into her path!
It is not spurred as in the case of the red valerian, but the base of the tube is pouched on one side.
Mounting the mettled charger, in the high spirit of new health he spurred it to full speed.
And as the trained soldier wheeled about and spurred away, the sacker of Rome turned a dark scowling face on Tignonville.
In his first battle his cavalry was put to flight, and he spurred his English grey out of the battle, and ran away!
So Mike spurred his broncho along the trail, while Polly and Anne rode after him.
Only the emergency could have spurred him to the point of so outrageous an impertinence.
His confession spurred winton on to the fortification of his daughter's position.
In Pelargonium the flower is zygomorphic with a spurred posterior sepal and the petals differing in size or shape.
I spurred charry forward, and down we plunged into the water, without the slightest thought of what was to follow.
He was booted and spurred, and carried a short, heavy whip of plaited greenhide.
But, spurred by fears for his friend, he started downward for the precipitious trail leading directly towards it.
Another instant and his own mustang was spurred in close by the strugglers.
Without a word more he turned, and, relacing his helmet, spurred his horse at the Saracens with his lance in rest.
He leaned forward and spurred his horse to outrun the pursuers.
One after the other, like spurred steeds, the cars leaped into the blackness, took the curve of the driveway, and were gone.
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