Sample Sentences for
spurn
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    Barb Wiggin, trying to prevent the angel from swinging, turned Harold Crosby away from the shepherds and the congregation—so that he continued to swing, but with his back toward everyone, as if he had decided to spurn the world, or retract his message.†  (source)
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    M'Lord, if that swine ....he's no more than a beast you'd spurn with your foot and discard the shoe because it'd been contaminated.†  (source)
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    If I pitied you for crying and looking so very frightened, you should spurn such pity.†  (source)
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    They resisted the smile and spurned the offer.†  (source)
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    Even if I should kneel before him, and implore him to spare me, for the sake of my children, I knew he would spurn me with his foot, and my weakness would be his triumph.†  (source)
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    He wanted to help Reyna, but since his own strategy was to deal with his problems alone, spurning anyone who tried to get close, he couldn't exactly criticize Reyna for doing the same thing.†  (source)
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    That I do not despair is because I know also the forces that are driving behind you—because I know the raging lash of poverty, the sting of contempt and mastership, 'the insolence of office and the spurns.'†  (source)
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    from the conqueress' field return'd, I mark the new aureola around your head, No more of soft astral, but dazzling and fierce, With war's flames and the lambent lightnings playing, And your port immovable where you stand, With still the inextinguishable glance and the clinch'd and lifted fist, And your foot on the neck of the menacing one, the scorner utterly crush'd beneath you, The menacing arrogant one that strode and advanced with his senseless scorn, bearing the murderous knife, The wide-swelling one, the braggart that would yesterday do so much, To-day a carrion dead and damn'd, the despised of all the earth, An offal rank, to the dunghill maggots spurn'd.†  (source)
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    Then, of course, I was swept up in the Jess Clark life-style, so I would have spurned liver sausage even if I 'd remembered.†  (source)
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    Measured by the prisoner's experience, however, it might be reckoned a journey of some length; for haughty as her demeanour was, she perchance underwent an agony from every footstep of those that thronged to see her, as if her heart had been flung into the street for them all to spurn and trample upon.†  (source)
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    By spurning the Point, he was following in the footsteps of both his father and grandfather.†  (source)
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    Even if he spurns your apology, at least you can't be blamed for not making the effort.†  (source)
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    Him when he spied from far, the Tuscan king Laid by the lance, and took him to the sling, Thrice whirl'd the thong around his head, and threw: The heated lead half melted as it flew; It pierc'd his hollow temples and his brain; The youth came tumbling down, and spurn'd the plain.†  (source)
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    I know no personal cause to spurn at him,  (source)
    spurn = strike
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    If thou dost bend, and pray, and fawn for him, I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.  (source)
    spurn = kick
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