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Definition of Spunkily
1. spunky [adv] - See also: spunky
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spunkily
Literary usage of Spunkily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1837)
"There, sir, read //«//, spunkily—and by all your hopes of butter and brimstone,
don't stutter anil shame Dr Browster. Know, Bub, that this song of Silenus ..."
2. Modern Eloquence by Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh (1900)
"... the wooden leg of the doughty Peter Stuyvesant did not come clattering spunkily,
and bringing its own boisterous welcome to his pleased recollection. ..."
3. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1899)
"Our 3 acquaintances had not made much headway, but they held on spunkily until
they were quite close to the approaching boat. Then the catboat came around ..."
4. Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National by John Walter Osborne (1854)
"... and threatening to trounce him if he did not come to reason in eight days :
France replied spunkily that there were two who could play at trouncing, ..."
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