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1. spurn His message, and so, a time of opportunity would be opened for the gentiles
2. but with his face stern, as her requests he did spurn
3. Woe upon you Pharisees who have persisted in rejecting the light of life! You are meticulous in tithing and ostentatious in almsgiving, but you knowingly spurn the visitation of God and reject the revelation of his love
4. Woe upon all who shun justice, spurn mercy, and reject truth! Woe upon all those who despise the revelation of the Father while they seek the chief seats in the synagogue and crave flattering salutations in the market places!"
5. "You spurn my offers of getting military and government assistance
6. There are many who will speak out when the actions of one spurn a few to the cause
7. “It’s the malady of our men,” Kusuma sounded sympathetic, “that they won’t marry widows and spurn divorcees, leaving both to rot in their paternal homes
8. Mexico was offered to accept or spurn
9. Would I rather not learn the truth, spurn it, or burn it? Not I!
10. And sooner than go back disgraced to Kunitz and fling herself at paternal feet which would in all probability immediately spurn her, Priscilla felt she would die
11. spurn the precepts of God because they do not understand the teachings of the Community, which are
12. ” Damien stuck his hand out, and it hovered, waiting for Gareth to take it or spurn it
13. Why hast thou done this abomination before me that thou didst spurn me for a merchant of jalaps and didst deny me to the Roman and to the Indian of dark speech with whom thy daughters did lie luxuriously? Look forth now, my people, upon the land of behest, even from Horeb and from Nebo and from Pisgah and from the Horns of Hatten unto a land flowing with milk and money
14. Away with all your superstitions, Servile masses arise, arise! We’ll change henceforth the old tradition, And spurn the dust to win the prize
15. She shouldn’t spurn me just for being a true man
16. The first I chose was Céline Varens—another of those steps which make a man spurn himself when he recalls them
17. Who even but now did spurn me with his foot,
18. Nekhludoff, however, was surprised that that chanter did not understand that everything in the church, and in the whole world, for that matter, existed only for Katiousha, and that one might spurn the entire world, but must not slight her, because she was the centre of it
19. No, sir, my life and my property are at all times at my country's command, and I feel no hesitation in saying that the citizens of Kentucky, whom I have the honor to represent, would step forward with alacrity, and defend with bravery that independence in which they glory, and in the obtaining of which some of the best blood of their ancestors was spilt; for the degradation of tribute they would spurn with manly indignation
20. Fusillades in the centre of a town, a sudden charge with the bayonet in a thronged market-place, the unexpected firing of a mine, and similar proofs of the "patriotism" of one party or the other, may be expected at any moment; and although pretending to inclusion in the list of civilised nations, either party will spurn the idea of notice or warning previous to the bombardment of a town
21. Sir, if the Spanish nation has any feeling for its sovereignty, it would spurn your request
22. No, sir, it is not possible that an American Congress does exist, or can ever exist, that would not spurn from themselves every vestige of an idea that they could be brought, under any circumstances, to perform so degrading and dishonorable a task
23. The merchants hate and spurn this ruinous defence
24. He declared his full confidence in their fidelity, patriotism, and honor, and he believes that they will not only spurn with contempt the attempt to seduce them, but will hail the present measure as just, honorable, and wise
1. Knowing that he had spurned Venna to have her once again made her especially responsive
2. Well Valla spurned him and sucked his biggest enemy's bioengineered dick on stage at a sex den in the town where we lived back in Wescarp
3. While driving these endless miles he was able to remember how she had spurned his offer to come with her to the city
4. She had spurned her father’s help
5. Spitting venom into the face of kindness, shuffling away, unable to take his eyes off the porthole window to the main mortuary room, Billy had lashed out one more time and spurned this small moment of human kindness
6. Desa was lounging in the arms of the guy she had spurned earlier
7. That’s why if there is anything here, I would think it would be an affair between her and Tony Reilly, a spurned woman, possibly?”
8. “The spurned lover, it wouldn’t be the first time
9. Claire had stumbled into the forest as a young woman, spurned by the man she’d loved
10. With their innate malignity, they have spurned the fair offer; and constantly
11. With their innate malignity they have spurned the fair offer; and constantly inclining to evil 23 have rejected the inestimable rights
12. It concerned the tragic love story of one Mary O’Connor who was spurned in love because of her
13. Spurned by what she knew was Joe’s decision, and being aware that he had never wanted her to be an integral part of what he considered to be his immediate family, Margaret duly rented a room on the same street that became available
14. His flying feet spurned the marble as he darted up the broad stair and through the pillared portico
15. Conan grunted with surprize to recognize the man the stallion had spurned in the ravine outside the Wazuli village
16. because they felt by father spurned
17. hoping they would not be spurned
18. Conan burst through the men at the gate, and his feet spurned the sward in his headlong charge
19. And when, therefore, those who spurned the kingdom when I came in the likeness of humanity seek to find an entrance when it is revealed in the likeness of divinity, then will I say to all such selfish ones: I know not whence you are
20. When the master of the house heard this, he was very angry, and turning to his servants, he said: `I have made ready this marriage feast; the fatlings are killed, and all is in readiness for my guests, but they have spurned my invitation; they have gone every man after his lands and his merchandise, and they even show disrespect to my servants who bid them come to my feast
21. 3 "And when he had punished those who spurned his invitation, he appointed yet another day for the wedding feast and said to his messengers: `They who were first bidden to the wedding were not worthy; so go now into the parting of the ways and into the highways and even beyond the borders of the city, and as many as you shall find, bid even these strangers to come in and attend this wedding feast
22. Then said the king to his servants: `Cast out this thoughtless guest from my house to share the lot of all the others who have spurned my hospitality and rejected my call
23. "Love is not something to be hidden, disguised or spurned
24. "The Romanov relatives spurned and rejected us
25. His heresy can not save people of the world, even less can it save the cult's destiny of being trampled and spurned by people
26. Even with these accomplishments, and overlapping “coincidences,” I spurned the idea that Spirit had never let me go until I began reordering the topics I had not used in the first two volumes
27. He was spurned at many elections
28. She wouldn’t speak to me for an hour afterwards, but when that had passed she called me Aloren, which caught on rapidly as a hay fire and clung to me like a spurned lover
29. We were demanding our place in a society that had spurned us
30. After all, it’s these reserved positions that enable them to hold their head high in the social milieu which had spurned them all along
31. Logically approached, those Quranic exhortations were primarily to serve Muhammad’s agenda, first of subduing the neighborhood Jews and then for avenging himself upon the Meccans by subduing them into his creed that they had earlier spurned; and viewed even from the Islamic angle, it could have been the will of Allah to stir his Prophet into action to gain ground for the faith in the sands of Arabia
32. since all that I see is blindly spurned
33. Over the years, men in town had made overtures but she spurned their attentions and concentrated on her work and Nicole
34. What was he going to say? Love me and forget the rest? It was ironic that he found himself the victim of fickle love when he had spurned someone else’s love
35. Haven’s look of alarm spurned Avery to finish the story
36. our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with
37. She had offered an olive branch and he had spurned it
38. She had spurned the advances of a very wealthy gentleman, but he wouldn’t take no for an answer
39. His manhood was outraged; his kindness, his patience, his affection were forgotten and spurned
40. I had planned our Saturday perfectly and we would have been able to hit a lot of houses if we had only spurned a second drink of tea or second slice of cake
41. He spurned her with his boot, never taking his eyes off the
42. Both had spurned his advances
43. "Was there anyone in particular who might have turned that adoration into something more sinister if the sentiment wasn't returned? A spurned lover?"
44. Berunni gritted tusks and spurned physical burn
45. ago, but spurned his proposal of marriage, for reasons he still did not
46. Not true! Instead I should have said, „a little success", because once there and spurned, he stayed at Lisa"s home
47. She was taciturn and spurned his attempts to reach her and find out what was troubling her
48. They spurned all of it: as being the evil spawn of the devil himself
49. The best lovers were always spurned and laughed at; or raped and killed
50. But really, nothing has spurned me toward the fight against evil like the War
1. O you fables spurning the known, eluding the hold of the known, mounting to heaven!
2. “ The second I saw Phillipe’s face in the sunlight at Desiree’s graveside I knew he was an angel sent down from heaven and I gave him my heart and soul, spurning her sloppy seconds
3. theManzanares, refusing wealth and spurning position gained at
4. spurning that which is not desired
5. If he needed a King and Queen to restore him, he was fortunate in having his remedy at hand; for, soon the large-faced King and the fair-faced Queen came in their golden coach, attended by the shining Bull's Eye of their Court, a glittering multitude of laughing ladies and fine lords; and in jewels and silks and powder and splendour and elegantly spurning figures and handsomely disdainful faces of both sexes, the mender of roads bathed himself, so much to his temporary intoxication, that he cried Long live the King, Long live the Queen, Long live everybody and everything! as if he had never heard of ubiquitous Jacques in his time
6. O you fables spurning the known, eluding the hold of the known,
7. He was afraid he might have dealt with his love affairs in some indecorous fashion, that might tend to the discredit and prejudice of the purity of his lady Dulcinea del Toboso; he would have had him set forth the fidelity and respect he had always observed towards her, spurning queens, empresses, and damsels of all sorts, and keeping in check the impetuosity of his natural impulses
8. asserting the independence of mind distinctive of a rational being, and spurning
9. Spurning the loathsome object with his foot, he turned from it with the same indifference he would have quitted a brute carcass
10. The fire of Dorothea's anger was not easily spent, and it flamed out in fitful returns of spurning reproach
11. Sam, loud and overbearing as he was, she rather regretted when he went, for he was clever and intelligent, and glad to be employed in any errand in the town; and though spurning the remonstrances of Susan, given as they were, though very reasonable in themselves, with ill-timed and powerless warmth, was beginning to be influenced by Fanny's services and gentle persuasions; and she found that the best of the three younger ones was gone in him: Tom and Charles being at least as many years as they were his juniors distant from that age of feeling and reason, which might suggest the expediency of making friends, and of endeavouring to be less disagreeable
12. But should she, thy sorrows spurning,
13. Thou the offering proudly spurning,
14. The purposes of Providence relative to the destination of men are to be gathered from the circumstances in which his beneficence has placed them; and to refuse to make use of the means of prosperity which his goodness has put into our hands, what is it but spurning at his bounty, and rejecting the blessings which his infinite wisdom has designated for us, by the very nature of his allotments? The employments of industry, connected with navigation and commercial enterprise, are precious to the people of that quarter of the country, by ancient prejudice, not less than recent profit
1. Anger is manifested in the individual who spurns love and opts instead for fury
2. The reason people with broken hearts cannot understand why their loved one suddenly turns cold and spurns them for no reason whatsoever, is because it is not them that did it: it is undead evil corrupting and controlling them just long enough to do the damage: just long enough to make sure that one of the couple in love is negatively imprinted and reacts negatively instead of positively to the one they love
3. Wanting to do the right thing: his family disowning him because he spurns the temptations of the riches they are all addicted to
4. The insolence of office and the spurns
5. There's tricks i' the world; and hems, and beats her heart; Spurns enviously at straws; speaks things in doubt,
6. immodest, there another condemns her as frail and frivolous; this pardons and absolves her, that spurns and reviles her; one extols her beauty, another assails her character, and in short all abuse her, and all adore her, and to such a pitch has this general infatuation gone that there are some who complain of her scorn without ever having exchanged a word with her, and even some that bewail and mourn the raging fever of jealousy, for which she never gave anyone cause, for, as I have already said, her misconduct was known before her passion
7. had smuggled of all his naked beauties, he spurns off the bed clothes, and