How To Use Spurn In A Sentence
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Don't spurn organic fertilizers that are low in nutrients, because they're rich in organic matter that turns to valuable humus in the soil.
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It was a far harder opportunity than the one he had spurned just seconds earlier, when he fired against the bar from five yards.
The Sun
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With the floor of the channel shallowing from 200 metres to 60 metres and at the same time a rock pinnacle, like a finger, rising up from the sea bed to 29 metres from the surface, there is no surprise that the whirlpool was once described as a 'conflux so dreadful that it spurns all description.
Found While Looking for Something Else
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All attempts by the Socialists to woo him back were spurned. Similar overtures from the right have likewise been rejected.
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A film version of the Carson McCullers play. Frankie Addams, a very boyish articulate 12-year-old girl, is going through an unhappy stage of her life, having been spurned by the neighborhood girls.
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All attempts by the Socialists to woo him back were spurned. Similar overtures from the right have likewise been rejected.
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I am ycleped J. Keyser -- I was born at Spring, hys Garden, My father toe make me ane clerke erst did essaye, But a fico for ye offis -- I spurn ye losels offeire; For I fain would be ane butcher by'r ladykin alwaye.
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers
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Like the spurned women of Manhattan, Howard and his fellow rejects should remind themselves they're smart, beautiful, funny, wonderful people who deserve better.
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Ajet's header under pressure had put him in between the two last defenders, but referee Mr L. Williams spurned the chance to play advantage and whistled for the foul on the provider.
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At Otterburn begane this spurne uppone a Monnynday;
Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series
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Relations with her father - already verging on the poisonous - worsened further when, spurning his suggestion of a career in netball, she decided to study at the Drama Centre in north London.
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I am conscious even yet of the thrills that pricked my spine, as this monster with nineteen companions spurned the earth in a mad, rushing leap out into space and sailed away into the night to let the inhabitants of German towns know that "frightfulness" was a game at which two could play.
The Fight for the Argonne Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man
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For younger singers it has been hard to spurn his crude advances, as their careers could have been adversely affected had they rebuffed him.
Times, Sunday Times
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Spurning such childish gadgets, adults look for something top-end to show off their more sophisticated tastes.
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He has heightened his isolation by spurning diplomatic initiatives from African neighbours and launching a crackdown on local media.
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Numerous valuable prizes have been spurned in their single-minded pursuit of the Arc.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now a third spurned woman has come out to say he strung her along before going off and getting married in secret.
The Sun
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While commonplace wisdom spurns escapism, practical experience sometimes calls for it.
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All my requests were spurned by my boss.
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This way he can graciously spurn your offer, while feeling reassured that you are not just taking advantage of him.
Times, Sunday Times
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She threw the money down upon the ground, and spurned it with her foot.
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She said that the sergeant and other colleagues tried to destroy her career after she spurned his advances.
Times, Sunday Times
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Frame 24: The ninth seed from Leeds fires a run of 54 but Doherty spurns a golden opportunity to claim a vital frame when he misses the final yellow.
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Based on the French novella by Prosper Merimee and the popular opera by Georges Bizet, Carmen is the story of a fiery Spanish gypsy who spurns her obsessive soldier lover for a flashy bullfighter.
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She spurned his advances
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Masquerading his message as a typical tale of lovers spurned and yearned, he fashioned a vitriolic denouncement of his countrymen, people whom he saw as being more capable of lying or hiding than fighting.
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In spurning the invitation by Government to discuss the matter, the union leaders have lost an opportunity to find an answer to their grievances without causing disruption to the system.
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As the classical Greek tragedy bible dictates, the spurned queen is duty-bound to seek vengeance, and both innocent and guilty are indiscriminately caught up in the inevitable bloodbath and terrifying climax.
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D. Hayworth, taking on John McCain in Arizona, was spurned for an endorsement, and even Ron Paul, the libertarian congressman who has been the emblem of sentiment against big government for decades, has found himself accused of "going Washington.
Has Obama Hit Bottom?
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Each narrator is an archetype - the spurned lover, the heartbreaker, the battered wife - and explores a different wrinkle of the urban African-American female experience.
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Here, any of you who love the Douglas, spurn me this quean from the monastery gates; and let her be so scourged that she may bitterly remember to the last day of her life how she gave means to an unrespective boy to affront the Douglas.
The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day
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Machinery of power makes inherent vice confess mistakes once etherized upon the gurneys, when jettisoned by their attorneys and ridiculed by them, and spurned despite the money they have earned, as money-driven as the clients, with whom they'd had their vice alliance.
Gershon Hepner: inherent Vice
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It was the German keeper who spurned Hearts plenty last season, especially at Ibrox and it was earlier this year that a last-minute tackle from Lorenzo Amoruso prevented Mark de Vries from salvaging a draw and a point in Glasgow.
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He spurned away the basket he uesd just now.
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Geeks store what they do in text and spurn big apps, using plain text editors.
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He - despite being left-handed in all other facets of life - was going to shoot basketballs right handed and spurn potential ambidextrousness.
Daily News-Record
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Spurned wifie, following the iron laws of retribution, sells story to Mail, the paper of contempt for the Today-editing classes.
Archive 2004-07-11
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After having been admired and valued as if its leaves were all emeralds and its buds apples of gold, it was spurned and ridiculed and everywhere cut down as a cumberer of the ground.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860
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United effectively lost the league by a point after spurning a hatful of chances five games from the finish as they drew 0-0 at Blackburn.
The Sun
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He spurns the label of ‘laxity’ for latitudinarianism and defends Anglicanism as a venerable bulwark against the encroachments and excesses of Rome.
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The second group adopts ways like installation and behavioral art to emphasize scene feeling and to show their spurn at the over-reproduction of images that caused loss of artistic feeling.
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The president spurned the tight security surrounding him and adopted a more intimate style of campaigning.
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Let's hope that means an end to the most badly abused aspect of existing law: It forces the discharge of otherwise law-abiding service members whose sexual orientation is revealed by third parties such as jilted partners or spurned would-be lovers of the opposite sex.
Local News from The Gainesville Sun
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To the world and to herself, she was a no-nonsense, practical woman who scoffed at indulgence and spurned luxury.
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Having scored a superb opener, Dargo spurned the easiest of opportunities in the 23rd minute.
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And on her side gentle thoughts and simple pleasures were odious to Mrs. Becky; they discorded with her; she hated people for liking them; she spurned children and children-lovers.
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Catholic France spurned him, and Jurieu, the great Reformed divine, called his cometary views "atheism," and tried hard to have Protestant Holland condemn him.
A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
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The Bush administration spurned direct contacts with Iran a prior commitment by Tehran to halt enrichment.
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Musa passed on to the third tablet, whereon was written, O son of Adam, the things of this world thou lovest and prizest and the hest of thy Lord thou spurnest and despisest.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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We spurn from us with disgust and indignation the slanders of those who bring us their anecdotes with the attestation of the flower-de-luce on their shoulder.
Paras. 125-149
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Even the name of the war proved contentious; for years the government spurned the term civil war as dignifying the conflict and preferred bandit war.
Bloodlust
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The president spurned the tight security surrounding him and adopted a more intimate style of campaigning.
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She is acting more like a spurned lover than a parent.
Times, Sunday Times
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The spurned woman shows up on the cruise as well, dogging the newlyweds' footsteps.
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Amanda learned to walk again with the help of an artificial leg, spurning the use of a wheelchair and a stairlift.
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Some gardeners might spurn a plant that usurps and overgrows their garden.
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Exploring the funeral of a spurned lover, we will be able to linger over the music of certain characters.
Times, Sunday Times
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But most spurned lovers at least get the news in person.
The Sun
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She has spurned potential lovers and judged those close to her harshly.
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Surely this wasn't the cold-hearted harpy that had spurned my affections.
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That way, when you've done the deed, your spurned lover can't burn your stuff in a fit of pique.
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The visitors were prepared to play a positive game, often spurning penalty kicks to throw the ball around.
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And on her side gentle thoughts and simple pleasures were odious to Mrs. Becky; they discorded with her; she hated people for liking them; she spurned children and children-lovers.
Vanity Fair
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The Scottish Arts Council hoped it would mine a rich seam of latent talent and take risks on fledgling authors spurned by larger companies.
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[Strikes him.] 1105: Hence horrible Villaine, or Ile spurne thine eyes
Antony and Cleopatra (1623 First Folio Edition)
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Mané spurned the chance to give his side some breathing space either side of the interval.
Times, Sunday Times
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Eve spurned Mark's invitation.
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No; I reject and spurn them utterly.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The Microsoft-Spurned Researcher Collective is also challenging what it describes as a combative attitude among software vendors toward independent and third-party security researchers.
EarthWeb IT Management News & Views
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Couldest not thou (that so often in his life time diddest spurne and kicke him) defend him now at the point of death by the like meane?
The Golden Asse
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Party members in Cumbria have already spurned the union activist he picked for the seat.
The Sun
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He should have spurned the finesse and settled for down three.
Times, Sunday Times
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No sheriff in Louisiana or spurned widow could ever have tracked him to the Lorelei.
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Then Flosi spurned the money, and said he would not touch a penny of it, and then he said he would only have one of two things: either that Hauskuld should fall unatoned, or they would have vengeance for him.
The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor
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For younger singers it has been hard to spurn his crude advances, as their careers could have been adversely affected had they rebuffed him.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although spurned by the main distributors, their glossy appearances enabled him to sell them through small, local newsagents.
Times, Sunday Times
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It might have been a different story had they not spurned two gilt-edged chances in the first five minutes.
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Because the publishing industry of the early and middle nineteenth century spurned female writers, Charlotte Bronte chose to work under the androgynous pseudonym Currier Bell.
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Anger is manifested in the individual who spurns love and opts instead for fury.
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Now a third spurned woman has come out to say he strung her along before going off and getting married in secret.
The Sun
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The spectacle, nothing short of extraordinary, displayed not a decade later, of this nation, one of the nations-one of the most important of nations -- and one which has always advocated peaceful methods, actually spurning the most promising means ever suggested to have peaceful methods prevail, is as startling as it was unexpected.
The United States and the League of Nations
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He spurned everything mean and ungenerous, -- was genial in disposition, indeed brimming with mirthfulness, and, in every situation, attracted to himself numerous friends.
Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick
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Instead of spurning these rapacious advances, local authorities were demanding a permanent share of the profits.
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Spurning her suitors, superior without being arrogant, she clearly is the object of her author 's admiration.
ISAAC CAMPION
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But most spurned lovers at least get the news in person.
The Sun
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Gossip has it that he spurned a lowly government job to preserve his independence.
Times, Sunday Times
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The income has enabled him to spurn international sanctions and disdain his pariah status.
Times, Sunday Times
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Spurning her suitors, superior without being arrogant, she clearly is the object of her author 's admiration.
ISAAC CAMPION
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I am an English Patriot and as such I spurn the silly idolisation of saints ,.
A Happy St George's Day
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He spurned the Cardinals to sign a four-year contract with the team that swept St. Louis in the World Series.
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Though she was not unattractive, Ben had spurned her several times simply because she always came on too strong and would not desist her coquetry.
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Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.
Chapter 10
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Turton, looking for oarsmen to row his captain's gig, spurned experienced sailors in favour of boys who were fitted out ‘with short little briefs and everything nice’.
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But most spurned lovers at least get the news in person.
The Sun
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He gave his time and labour with a reckless generosity and could be deeply hurt when it was spurned or unappreciated, which was sometimes the case.
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Narcissus was a young man who spurned the nymph Echo and became enamoured of his own reflection.
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Since thou hast spurned the grace of God and made thyself unworthy of the office of preaching, we rightly deprive you of this office.
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She was accused of being superior and distant - because she spurns requests to appear on television or model for magazine covers.
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But the marvel of his comprehensiveness is his mode of dealing with the vulgar, the vicious, and the low, -- with persons who are commonly spurned as dolts and knaves.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867
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No; I reject and spurn them utterly.
The Times Literary Supplement
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There’s the respect that makes for so long life, for who would bear the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, the pangs of disprized love, the law’s delay, the insolence of office, and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes, when he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin?
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This young girl on the cusp of an (apparently unarranged) marriage is suddenly spurned by her heroic fiancé.
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Milan's models strutted through the first day of fashion week on Sunday but the twice-yearly festival got off to a muted start with the influential faces of fashion spurning the opening.
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Plead not for me, sir," said William Hinkley, glaring upon Stevens with something of that expression which in western parlance is called wolfish, "I scorn and spurn your interference.
Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky
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That unfriendly, unbrotherly, unneighbourly, as well as rash and unmannerly, Spurning of the Execution, and then sending it to
John Adams diary 7, 21 March - 18 October 1761
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But most spurned lovers at least get the news in person.
The Sun
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After all my rabbiting on about the foolishness of those plebs who choose to spurn the way of the Proper Bow Tie, I've had a bastard of a time for the last couple of days figuring out how the heck you actually tie one.
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He decide to teach a lesson to the poor kid he'd become infatuated with for ‘spurning’ his advances.
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1252: (Who euen but now did spurne me with his foote) 1253: To call me goddesse, nimph, diuine, and rare,
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1623 First Folio Edition)
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I'm old enough to have signed contracts that date back to the old law that Lessig wants us to return to - an Oz-like paradise when the U.S. went its own manly way in copyright and spurned the effete conventions of the rest of the world.
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Williams has three chances to win the frame but spurns them all and Doherty looks to be cleaning up but misses a straightforward brown.
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2974: Nay more, to spurne at your most Royall Image,
Henry IV, Part Two (1623 First Folio Edition)
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3102: By rule of Knight-hood, I disdaine and spurne:
King Lear (1623 First Folio Edition)
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Westmoor, for example, which had always spurned Maryport in favour of carting coal over the marginally shorter distance to a staithe at Allonby, was forced to cease operations altogether.
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Which is probably why she spurned his advances.
The Sun
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It was a far harder opportunity than the one he had spurned just seconds earlier, when he fired against the bar from five yards.
The Sun
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Although the truth of his extravagant feelings is proved by his death, and though when he digs up a treasure he spurns the wealth which seems to tempt him, we yet see distinctly enough that the vanity of wishing to be singular, in both the parts that he plays, had some share in his liberal self-forgetfulness, as well as in his anchoritical seclusion.
Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
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He spurns her advances and tragedy ensues.
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Party members in Cumbria have already spurned the union activist he picked for the seat.
The Sun
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If America spurns global agreements on climate change, the whole planet is more vulnerable.
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His financial problems were solved, but he was spurned by the art establishment.
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Although spurned by the main distributors, their glossy appearances enabled him to sell them through small, local newsagents.
Times, Sunday Times
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I then tooke one of them, and thrust him into the smoke, and willed one of my company to tread out the fire, and to spurne it into the sea, which was done to shew them that we did contemne their sorcery.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.
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Having spurned the fleshpots of Glasgow, novelist Carole Morin is enjoying the sybaritic delights of London.
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But Nietzsche spurns all our querulous wheedlings, and wonders how in our ‘constant fluttering around the single flame of vanity… an honest and pure urge for truth could have arisen among men’.
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You must not only deny the allegation, but 'spurn the allegator.'
Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
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The Scottish experience in the past half-century has been a patchwork of success, spurned opportunities and downright failure.
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Moz also looks elsewhere for love but his advances are spurned.
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The Bush administration spurned direct contacts with Iran without a prior by Tehran to halt enrichment.
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Ellis plays the part of the young lover spurned by his mistress.
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Kylie Minogue might be spurning them these days, but Dolce and Gabbana are favourites in paparazzi-land.
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It was a far harder opportunity than the one he had spurned just seconds earlier, when he fired against the bar from five yards.
The Sun
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She is acting more like a spurned lover than a parent.
Times, Sunday Times
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Forced to flee her homeland because she spurned the advances of a king and slew him instead, she rode west across the Turanian steppes and into the shadowed mists of legendry. — - The Nemedian Chronicles
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Alarmed by the turn of events the governments behave like spurned lovers.
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You led me to believe you enjoyed my company, then arrogantly spurned my proposal without even admiring the ring.
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She said that the sergeant and other colleagues tried to destroy her career after she spurned his advances.
Times, Sunday Times
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Scotland being again rescued from the vengeance of her implacable foe, the disaffected lords in the citadel affected to spurn at her preservation, declaring to the regent that they would rather bear the yoke of the veriest tyrant in the world, than owe a moment of freedom to the man who (they pretended to believe) had conspired against their lives.
The Scottish Chiefs
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The second group adopts ways like installation and behavioral art to emphasize scene feeling and to show their spurn at the over-reproduction of images that caused loss of artistic feeling.
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Arun is a sensitive young man from the capital who spurns a comfortable inheritance and takes a job teaching in a rural elementary school, in the very heartland of the insurgency.
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She's not in the best of moods, having been spurned by her lover.
The Sun
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Which is probably why she spurned his advances.
The Sun
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Where the new pay roads met the old free ones, people often circumvented the tollgates a practice called “shun-piking” that, in one humble opinion, would have been more cleverly termed “spurn-piking”.
The King's Best Highway
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Brokers increasingly have been spurned by big retail banks, which rely on branches and building salaried sales forces, says Guy Cecala, publisher of the trade paper Inside Mortgage Finance.
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Kahane wants nothing to do with the studio suit who has spurned him for so long, and storms out.
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For him to spurn the former first lady would be to cause a schism in the party.
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While most countries embarked upon inflation and on a policy of easy money, the literary champions of inflationism were still spurned as ‘monetary cranks.’
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From here on, Malik is protected and schooled by Luciani, perhaps too efficiently; in a heartbreaking late scene, the pupil spurns his mentor, like a vicious Prince Hal disdaining Falstaff.
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All attempts by the Socialists to woo him back were spurned. Similar overtures from the right have likewise been rejected.
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They took his remark as a joke although he had meant it as a spurn to their stupidity.
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She spurned my offers of help.
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Matlock spurned several easy chances to secure an even more emphatic win.
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Then, once you really believe in something, the key is to keep your head down and go for it, spurning any attempt to sidetrack you on the way.
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Surely this wasn't the cold-hearted harpy that had spurned my affections.
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But if you shoot but one Arrow to shed one drop of bloud of any of my men, or steale the least of these Beads, or Copper, I spurne here before you with my foot; you shall see I will not cease revenge (if once I begin) so long as I can heare where to finde one of
The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: With the Names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from Their First Beginning, Ano: 1584. To This Present 1624. With the Procedings of Those Severall Colonies and the Accidents
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And in innumerable other minutes of the 90, they were carved apart by a Kilmarnock team who spurned so many opportunities it was barely credible.
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The Scottish Arts Council hoped it would mine a rich seam of latent talent and take risks on fledgling authors spurned by larger companies.
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As the tambour (drum) was a spurned instrument, only the triangle could bring a strong support destined to accentuate the rhythms of the accordion dance.
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Even the plebeians are people and should not be spurned or provoked.
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Johnny gets angry texts from a spurned lover - but these nasty signs never metastasise dramatically into a situation that confronts or challenges Johnny.
The Guardian World News
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she was known as a spurner of all suitors
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Here, any of you who love the Douglas, spurn me this quean from the monastery gates; and let her be so scourged that she may bitterly remember to the last day of her life how she gave means to an unrespective boy to affront the Douglas.”
The Fair Maid of Perth
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Though she spurned her hometown, and the South Side particularly, as a cradle of bougie Negroes, her ties to that magical city still pulled me in.
American Girl
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He spurns the notion that modernization as such is the ticket to emancipation and happiness.
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Sales to addicts were rationalized by the realization that spurned customers could simply go to another druggist - or a street dealer.
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Seeing my heart is wholly his spurns love as sin indign.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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It is a huge story, full of facts, and Fraser spurns equivocation and doubt as she explains why Alfred was great and Ethelred was unready, why King John was not a good man and Nelson and Wellington were brilliant.
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Of course the answer is that Mr. Baldessari's antiart stance, through which he spurns the art establishment, is just that
Much Less Than Meets the Eye
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At the age of 69, Val Hobson has become an eco-warrior - spurning the habits of a law-abiding lifetime to be on the front line of a campaign to prevent a mobile mast being built near her home.
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Spurning her suitors, superior without being arrogant, she clearly is the object of her author 's admiration.
ISAAC CAMPION
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He professed to have veered from the "old, foul road" down which language must drag itself, but is it not possible that what he was turning from was precisely his love of language, a luxury that his ascetic soul felt obliged to spurn?
2009 May 06 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
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Exceeds not mine for him nor more devotion shows, but he * Seeing my heart is wholly his spurns love as sin indign.
Arabian nights. English
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But Standard Life fears that any more confusion in the market place will have an adverse affect on savers, causing more people to spurn making proper financial provision for their future.
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Familiar properties of the horror genre aren't spurned.
Times, Sunday Times
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Spurned lovers and ex-wives were nabbed making obscene calls thanks to a new high-tech tracing system.
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Much of the American public — once Paine's base of support — spurned him after his release from French prison, when he publicly blamed George Washington for not having helped secure his release.
Tom Paine, Warts and All
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The president spurned the tight security surrounding him and adopted a more intimate style of campaigning.
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Gilliam, whose anarchic wackiness is sharply caught by Sam Alexander, is an American with an Oedipally rebellious grudge against the country that spurned him and a gratitude for the freedom of expression nurtured by English public-service broadcasting.
The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
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Such interludes only heightened the edginess which enveloped the stadium, for Celtic were demonstrating the breadth and depth of their ability to spurn chances.
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She's not in the best of moods, having been spurned by her lover.
The Sun
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But it would be brutish and graceless to spurn what is meant as a token of friendship.
Times, Sunday Times
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One day he inadvertently bathed in the spring of the naiad he had spurned.
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He should have spurned the finesse and settled for down three.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pakistan spurned the vote because it wants a plebiscite to decide rule between India and itself.
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he was no spurner of rules
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Mayobridge spurned another goal chance on the seventh minute when a beautifully placed high ball from Benny Coulter fell to Ronan Sexton.
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Exploring the funeral of a spurned lover, we will be able to linger over the music of certain characters.
Times, Sunday Times
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The empowerment agenda is meaty (schools - welfare), andcan be easily augmented with parliamentary reform (spurning state funding, forcing all MPs to publish all expenses).
Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
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A Mumbai merchant spurns your best offer. A maitre d' snubs you in Beirut.
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At the other end, Magdalen always looked the more likely to get the next goal with Chris Woodcock arrowing a long range effort wide and Jones spurning a good chance.
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Both, for obscure hedonistic purposes, assume the false name Ernest only to find that their respective paramours, Cecily and Gwendolen, will spurn any man who does not go by that name.
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For indeede after the Philosophers had picked out of the sweete misteries of Poetrie, the right discerning true points of knowledge: they forthwith putting it in methode, and making a Schoole Art of that which the Poets did onely teach by a divine delightfulnes, beginning to spurne at their guides, like ungratefull Prentices, were not content to set up shop for themselves, but sought by all meanes to discredit their maisters, which by the force of delight being barred them, the lesse they could overthrow them, the more they hated them.
Defence of Poesie
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This way he can graciously spurn your offer, while feeling reassured that you are not just taking advantage of him.
Times, Sunday Times