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Hotspur

[ UK /hˈɒtspɔː/ ]
NOUN
  1. English soldier killed in a rebellion against Henry IV (1364-1403)

How To Use Hotspur In A Sentence

  • Hotspur is an uncommon man, whose uncommonness is unsupported by his father at a critical moment. William Shakespeare
  • On the one hand, planters have been depicted as perennial hotspurs - hard drinking, fast-living men whose hair-trigger tempers demonstrated little foresight and generated even less systematic thought.
  • She must have heard, along with the rest of Plymouth, of the arrival of Hotspur in Tor Bay; presumably she had made her way here via Totnes in the carrier's cart — a long and tedious journey. Hornblower And The Hotspur
  • She must have heard, along with the rest of Plymouth, of the arrival of Hotspur in Tor Bay; presumably she had made her way here via Totnes in the carrier's cart — a long and tedious journey. Hornblower And The Hotspur
  • Next came the letters; word must have reached the post office in Plymouth of the arrival of Hotspur in Tor Bay, and the letters had been sent across overland. Hornblower And The Hotspur
  • People have a spring in their step, are laughing and chatting, buoyed up with the knowledge that their team whacked Glenn Hoddle's Tottenham Hotspur between the eyes twice last week.
  • Manchester United could go level on points with their neighbours by winning Saturday's home game against Bolton Wanderers, as could Tottenham Hotspur by beating Wolves at White Hart Lane, and Ferguson said it is good for football to see two new teams challenging for the title ahead of the usual threat from Chelsea and Arsenal. Manchester City's first half of season was fantastic, says Ferguson
  • For many years I have maintained that a production MacAnuff did of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I, with Jon Vickery as Hal, Mandy Patinkin as Hotspur and the late Kenneth McMillan as Fastaff, is one of the few truly professional productions I have ever seen in Central Park. Howard Kissel: The Met's New Faust
  • The King's lunacy had in the meanwhile become so manifest that Prince William had to be installed as prince regent; the royal power was now in the hands of a tractable adherent of the aristocratic clique and of the military hotspurs.
  • The graceful manner of speaking is, particularly, what I shall always holloa in your ears, as Hotspur holloaed Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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