footspur

A footspur of Tantalus Hill seeks ineffectually to bar the entrance to Manoa's grateful shades and inviting solitudes.

My sickness was gone like a flash; I seized the oar, made a footspur of Don Sly's back, and, all pulling steadily, we held our our own till the squall spent itself and then we shot out of the ground swell, and headed across the bay.

Slag here lifted the footspur to dash its brains out, as he had been enjoined; but the type of harmlessness, being now rested, escaped its new, and, shall we say, more irrational enemy, by flight.