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NYTimes, October 22, 1937, 22; “Woman Legislator Spurns Smartness.”
Dorothy Straus. 2009
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(YHOO) (see BusinessWeek. com, 4/11/07, “Viacom Spurns Google for Yahoo”).
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VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Israeli Spurns Criticism From Clinton'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'After Hillary Clinton criticized plans to extend a park across 88 buildings that house Palestinian families in East Jerusalem, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat said she was meddling in local control over zoning and the city\'s economic future.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Israeli Spurns Criticism From Clinton 2009
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The headline is really silly: “Obama Spurns Silicon Valley …”.
Obama Spurns Silicon Valley Vets, Names Virginia’s Secretary of Technology As CTO Jason Kincaid 2005
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Spurns at his love and scorns the heat he feels,
Venus and Adonis 2004
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Spurns the base gold, cause of his wild despair; --
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various
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Spurns enviously at straws; speaks things in doubt,
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Spurns enviously1 at straws, speaks things in doubt
Act IV. Scene V 1909
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Spurns, and the red blood stains the splintered steel.
The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor 70 BC-19 BC Virgil 1902
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Spurns at the grave, leaps to the welcoming skies,
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