Which preposition to use with spurned
To this question the Jew replied, "Signior Anthonio, on the Rialto many a time and often you have railed at me about my monies, and my usuries, and I have borne it with a patient shrug, for sufferance is the badge of all our tribe; and then you have called me unbeliever, cut-throat dog, and spit upon my Jewish garments, and spurned at me with your foot, as if I was a cur.
Pity, sorrow for her grief, would be but idle words, which she would spurn with contempt,and she would be right.
out of winter's flying sleet She is making all the summer sweet, And the brown leaves spurned of November's feet She is changing back again to spring's.
Break! to be spurned from its cold feet with a stony shock, As you would spurn my suppliant heart from your feet, Ione.
Cast off and even spurned in her own house, the poor young Countess longed for her dear, dead mother's presence.
Beware also to spurn against a nail; nailto kick against Strive not as doth a crocké with a wall.
I was spurned without a moment's hesitation; all her modesty risen in arms, she reduced me to a mere nothing.
That, however, the people spurned as nothing else than a ready money bribe for regal authority: so uncompromisingly were his gifts rejected, as if there was abundance of everything, in consequence of their inveterate suspicion that he was aiming at sovereign power.
Those whom you are bound to keep, to spurn like dogs!
Although he did not stand in need of any one's advice, but still I spurned on the willing horse, as it is said.
I pictured one of them a member of the M.E. Church, appealing to that church for redress and spurned under the "Black Gag," and I?