spur

So he sang a very mournful song that he made up on the spur of the minute, and just as he got to the most touching part, the grass quivered again, and Rikki-tikki, covered with dirt, dragged himself out of the hole leg by leg, licking his whiskers.

It is such a spur to one’s genius, such an opening for wit, to have a dislike of that kind.

A steep curve of heath-clad land, an outlying spur of the moor, lay in front of us.