spurneth

” And ‘Ala-ed-Din told her all the story to the end thereof, and fell to cursing the Moor with all his might from out of his raging soul, saying: “O my mother, woe to this damnable sorcerer, this ill-omened, vile, inhuman cheat and hypocrite, who contemneth all human kindness, and spurneth mercy and compassion!

Appendix. The Story of ‘Ala-ed-Din and the Wonderful Lamp: Paras. 1-24. 1909

He spurneth oft in plain way, and stumbleth oft; there he should heave up his foot, he boweth it downward.

Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902

Agamemnon king of men, he yonder hath no mind to quench his wrath, but is yet more filled of fury, and spurneth thee and thy gifts.

The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

296Necessitie oft times presseth vs in the end to that, which our will continually spurneth against.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

-- another, his arms locked about his love, spurneth thee from him all the long night.

Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

Other hounds flee and avoid the wood hound as pestilence and venom: and he is always exiled as it were an outlaw, and goeth alone wagging and rolling as a drunken beast, and runneth yawning, and his tongue hangeth out, and his mouth drivelleth and foameth, and his eyes be overturned and reared, and his ears lie backward, and his tail is wrinkled by the legs and thighs; and though his eyes be open, yet he stumbleth and spurneth against every thing.

Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902

Necessitie oft times presseth vs in the end to that, which our will continually spurneth against.]

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe Richard Hakluyt 1584