1 Well, that gives me sorrow, for I am not made so entirely happy by my marriage that I am willing to spurn you for the information, as I ought to do.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 6 A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian 2 The insolence of office, and the spurns.
3 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.
4 But again when I reflected that they had spurned and deserted me, anger returned, a rage of anger, and unable to injure anything human, I turned my fury towards inanimate objects.
5 They were forever ardent and craving; still I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned.
6 That she had done a grievous thing in taking an impressionable child to mould into the form that her wild resentment, spurned affection, and wounded pride found vengeance in, I knew full well.
7 'She is dead, perhaps,' said Miss Dartle, with a smile, as if she could have spurned the body of the ruined girl.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 46. INTELLIGENCE 8 artist who haunts her steps, and is spurned by the.
9 At Lowood, indeed, I took that resolution, kept it, and succeeded in pleasing; but with Mrs. Reed, I remember my best was always spurned with scorn.
10 I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 11 Of one who spurned them in his pride.
12 But the ship, having her full complement of seamen, spurned his suit; and not all the King his father's influence could prevail.
13 His soul had arisen from the grave of boyhood, spurning her grave-clothes.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 4 14 Cranly's heavy boots were heard loudly charging across the quadrangle and then returning heavily, foiled and spurning the gravel at each step.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 15 Hapless Acron goes down, and, spurning the dark ground, gasps out his life, and covers the broken javelin with his blood.