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  • The Humber lifeboat crew and their families live on a small, inaccessible spit of land known as Spurn Point.

    BBC News | Technology | World Edition 2009

  • Woman “Spurn her advances” + TDM or “Invite her back to your room” + Nightmares; need to choose first, of course

    Going Insane for First City Coins and Profit | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2010

  • Woman “Spurn her advances” + TDM or “Invite her back to your room” + Nightmares; need to choose first, of course

    Going Insane for First City Coins and Profit | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2010

  • Spurn no suppliant: if you can give, give; if you cannot, show yourself affable.

    Archive 2009-10-01 Michelle 2009

  • Spurn no suppliant: if you can give, give; if you cannot, show yourself affable.

    Column: Augustine and teens Michelle 2009

  • "Spurn not the discourse of the wise, but acquaint yourself with their proverbs; from them you will acquire the training to serve in the presence of princes."

    Archive 2008-10-05 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • "Spurn not the discourse of the wise, but acquaint yourself with their proverbs; from them you will acquire the training to serve in the presence of princes."

    Fireproof and Retrouvaille de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • It's the tale of two villages: “Kilnsea, in the East Riding just north of Spurn Head, is an example of how to play the system; Happisburgh, in north Norfolk, a classic example of a climate ghetto in the making.”

    Climate Ghettos 2006

  • Spurn the poor glee woman!” he said, in high indignation;

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • Spurn thine own oppressed vassals, rude earl — scourge thine own faulty hounds; but beware how you touch so much as a dog that Rothsay hath patted on the head, far less

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

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