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Across literary works, "spurred" functions as a dynamic term that embodies both a literal and metaphorical push. In some instances, it vividly depicts the physical act of urging a horse to quicken its pace or change direction, as seen when steeds are given renewed energy to charge into battle or traverse challenging terrains ([1], [2], [3]). In other contexts, "spurred" conveys an inner impulse—an emotional or intellectual drive—propelling characters to act with determination, whether that be motivated by hope, anger, or ambition ([4], [5], [6], [7], [8]). The word, therefore, seamlessly bridges the gap between tangible movement and the abstract forces of passion and resolve, underscoring the diversity in its literary application across epochs and genres ([9], [10], [11], [12]).
  1. Whilst they spurred their steeds they held their pistols ready also.
    — from Twenty years after by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet
  2. The unknown spurred his horse to a gallop.
    — from Twenty years after by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet
  3. and he spurred his horse and galloped away.
    — from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy
  4. Every mental faculty is quickened, every power of thought and expression spurred.
    — from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
  5. The greater the difficulty the more I felt spurred on to attempt it.
    — from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
  6. That was a contingency he had never thought of, and it spurred him to write all the more quickly to her.
    — from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
  7. From a child she made me feel that this was the position she expected me to fill; and her faith spurred me on and gave me the power to attain it.
    — from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
  8. The two conditions, then, that prompt others to idleness—leisure and solitude—only spurred him on.
    — from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero
  9. By came a knight That road, who halted, asking, "What's the fright?" They told him, and he spurred straight for the site!
    — from Poems by Victor Hugo
  10. But he also was spurred on by a ferocious desire of vengeance.
    — from The three musketeers by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet
  11. Then had the sons of the Achaeans taken the lofty gates of Troy if Apollo had not spurred on Agenor, valiant and noble son to Antenor.
    — from The Iliad by Homer
  12. For now Caesar Forsook vacillation and, spurred by the love of revenge, sheathed The Gallic sword; brandished the brand that proclaimed civil warfare.
    — from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

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