Let us go back to the honest villagers; at the farm they will not spurn me.
Jacques no longer had the strength to spurn him; Edouard approached Adeline and threw himself at her feet, placing his head against the ground, and sobbing piteously.
You despise, you spurn my love; tremble before the effects of my hatred and of the revenge I will have for your contempt.
No, Edouard is not hard-hearted; he loves me still, he will not spurn his Adeline.
Lloyd's signal station on Spurn Point has also intimated that hostile ships coming from the south are lying-to just beyond the Lightship.
The manner in which they had manoeuvred to pass Spurn Point and ascend the river was remarkable, and astounded the officers in the forts at Paull.
Through the hot, heavy atmosphere the roar of cannon came from the direction of Spurn Point, and as the sounds of the shots fell upon the ears of the anxious watchers, they stood aghast, wondering what would be their destiny.
The people gather at the palace gates, And vengeance writes itself upon each face; Their generosity no longer waits, They spit upon, and spurn the outraged place.
We may come to the Sanctuary with lips full of praises and eyes full of prayers, with devotion in our hearts and gifts in our hand, but God will spurn our worship and despise our gifts.
By the waste of that coast the Spurn is maintained, and the Trinity Sands are daily enlarged, and the meadows fattened along Ouse and Trent.
More than a mile in breadth along the whole coast from Bridlington to Spurn has been devoured since the Battle of the Standard was fought.
As the Vivid steamed past the Spurn lighthouse, I looked curiously at the low sandy spit on which the tall red tower stands, scarcely as it seems above the level of the water, thinking that my first walk would perhaps lead thither.
From Patrington to Spurn the distance is thirteen miles.
A broad long sand in the shape of a spoon," is the description given of Spurn in a petition presented to parliament nearly two hundred years ago; and, if we suppose the spoon turned upside down, it still answers.
He was formerly at Flamborough, and although appointment to the Spurn was promotion, he did not like it so well.
Spurn you more wealth than can be told, The fowl that lays the eggs of gold, Because she's plainly clad, man?
That man or race so prosperously low 190 Sunk in success that wrath they cannot feel, Shall taste the spurn of parting Fortune's heel; For never land long lease of empire won Whose sons sate silent when base deeds were done.
This made Moses also spurnat a crown and a kingdom; to look with a disdainful eye upon all the glory of Egypt.
As long as the motive is not base, men do not spurn the falsehood as such.
The humble apron, too, was speedily discarded, and as she trampled it beneath her feet she seemed to spurn the mean condition of which it was the symbol.
I spurn the imposition," said Lady Dorothea, tearing it in fragments.
Cynics may rail against money, Spurn its beneficent power; Bears spurn impossible honey, Foxes the grapes that are sour.
Let him despise the man who offers him an office andspurn the sordid wretch who would give him a bribe.
Now, if we reject and spurn them, we do our utmost to disorganize and disperse them.
But will he receive me--will he not spurn me from him?
Did he know all, he would curse me--he would spurn me from him--he would discard me forever!
And yet you exclaim, 'I see no injury-I spurn at the name of slave!
Grasp thou no boon with sadness on thy brow, Spurn the base bribe that binds a guilty vow.
Perhaps just one or two young men may spurn these practices, whose hearts the Titan has formed with kindlier art, and moulded out of better clay.
Was inclined even to spurn this love--nay, had dared brutally to repulse it, because it could not accomplish impossibilities.
Or would she, with the inherent ungenerosity of a low nature, spurn and deride the victim?
Death meant, to spurn the ground, soar to the sky,--die well and you do that.
Did the conqueror spurn the creature, Once its service done?
