Keela was coming through the trees, proud eyes fierce with terrible anger; halting beside the dead man, she spurned him with moccasined foot.
Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne!
Have I so long worn this dear emblem of your affection next my heart, in battle and in tempest, to be spurned from you like a cur on my return?
When she had succeeded, my first act was one of base ingratitude, cruelty, and injustice: I spurned her from me, and upbraided her as the cause of my unfortunate situation.
In bitterness of soul, he wished that he had now even one of the little girls he spurned as if she were not his own flesh and blood.
Lo, they have spurned the Word of the Lord— What wisdom is theirs?
Out of this too shalt thou come 37 With thy hands on thy head, For spurned hath the Lord the things of thy trust, Not by them shalt thou prosper!
The young girl spoke in high and enthusiastic terms of her mother, who, born in freedom spurned the bondage to which she was now reduced.
I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to bespurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.
He spurned me with contumely--so much of it, in fact, that I imagine you have a number of such friends.
As the gate clicked, John raised his head; then as Bryce's quick step spurned the cement walk up the little old-fashioned garden, he rose and stood with one hand outstretched and trembling a little.
But such good deeds cannot remain concealed; and I—I for one will proclaim to all who havespurned me in my bitter need, that a stranger has saved me—and that stranger a great Prince whose shoes they are not worthy to touch!
But when, in your pride, you spurned the worm—you knew not that the day could ever possibly come for that worm to raise its head and sting you!
They spurnedme from their doors; and I was left to beg or steal.
A woman had triumphed over him—mocked his passion—spurned his offers—read him a lesson of morality—taught him that proud man must not always domineer over feminine weakness.
No—you have triumphed over me long enough: you have used me as a tool when it suited your convenience—and you spurned me when I had ceased to be useful.
Blinded by his own arrogant self-esteem, he had spurned the pure pearl, and taken the empty, glittering shell to her as the kind of treasure he was satisfied to deal in.
As fast as fast might be; Spurned from the courser's thundering heels The flashing pebbles flee.
Yes, Miss Moncton, spurned me from his presence, with hard words and bitter taunts.
I swore to love you faithfully, Till death should bid us part; But proudly and reproachfully, You spurned a loyal heart.
I hastened through the silent and deserted streets, and strode over the bridges with a bound as vehement as if I would have spurned them from under me.
He raised it, drank, spurned the animal with his foot, and passed on.
Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne.
But, as I have said, he did not know it at the time, and probably would have spurned the suggestion a day later.
In a moment she showed a transition from that emotion which spurned him, to that love for him which trembled for his safety.
Paradise cannot be spurned by one who now feels its warmth for the first time," said he, gallantly.
They know that its advice is worthy of being listened to; and that advice is valued and respected, and is not spurnedwith contumely, as the honorable member would wish us to suppose.
The addition to her income, which she had spurned from Stephen Verner, she accepted willingly from Lionel.
The near-sighted gentleman declined to wager anything but just the five dollars, and Parkins spurned his proposition with the scorn of a gentleman who would on no account bet a cent of money.
Outraged by her mother's tyranny, spurned by her lover, she stood like a hunted creature, brought to bay, looking for the last desperate chance for escape.
With one act of complete revulsion she spurned it all: the moral casuistry that beguiled him, the church that cloaked him; spurned psalm and prophet and apostle, Christ and parable and song.
The bill was ignominiously spurned by the people and the popular branch of the legislature.
Sincere himself in the matter, he thought Franklin also sincere: otherwise there can be no doubt that he would have spurned him from his door.
Tito knew what they were, and spurned them as usual; but finding more later, she gathered up three or four and crossed the Little Missouri toward the ranch-house.
The aide-de-camp saluted, and a minute later the giant car spurned the gravel out from under its rear wheels as it started off to warn another regiment.
Since the fact that the servant spurns one of two masters, makes it impossible for him to serve that one, if he spurned both it would make it impossible for him to serve either.
In such case, the law spurned money, whatever the sum.
In such case, the law utterlyspurned money, however large the sum.
