"Spunky" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... how much they find out? I often wonder how things get to be known. I do wish she wouldn't give them the chance to talk, but she's not the one that will take tellin'—too much like her father for that—and still I kind o' like her for her spunky ways. Rance is a divil, but she don't know that. It is pretty hard to tell what ought to be done. This is surely work for the Almighty, and not for sinful ...
— The Black Creek Stopping-House • Nellie McClung
... Freckles that complete they are tamer than our chickens. Look hard, bairns!" he whispered. "Ye winna see the like o' yon again, while God lets ye live. Notice their color against the ice and snow, and the pretty skippin' ways of them! And spunky! Weel, I'm heat fair!" ...
— Freckles • Gene Stratton-Porter
... finally followed by the entire animal, who looked cautiously about, and then hopped away to feed on the clover. At that moment I rushed in, occupied the "home base," yelled to Turk, and then danced with delight at the combat between the spunky woodchuck and the dog. They were about the same size, but science and civilization won the day. I did not reflect then that it would have been more in the interest of civilization if the woodchuck had killed the dog. I do not know ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... in his arms, and she was fighting him. I dashed forward. Babs was always a spunky sort of girl. In spite of her fear now, she kept ...
— Astounding Stories, March, 1931 • Various
... of the decision about the house, the answering remark, made approvingly, was, 'That's a spunky little girl!' ...
— A Red Wallflower • Susan Warner |
