Then he leapt forward, spurning the earth, and was gone like the north wind from the mountains.

The girl could be lying just to make good her threat to get even with him for spurning her.

He begins to see conspiracies everywhere, and with no one to turn to after spurning Jackie, sets off on his own.

He then berates his gang for spurning his generosity.

The dealer leads him to an upbeat traveling musician whom the Soviet society left moneyless after spurning his musical career.

Her shyness was not an affectation; her spurning of glamour was not an act.

After spurning the Jeter idea, Krezwick asked Konrad to tell his pals that the March 1 rights were available again.

Tipp started off straight away with Barry Grogan spurning a goal chance, with Donegal getting a point straight after.

Pete Carroll was eventually dismissed by the New England Patriots, prompting Bill Belichick's hiring there after spurning his Jets contract as Parcells's successor.

Shane Long, Peter Odemwingie and Louis Saha spent the majority of the 90 minutes in a fruitless search for chances and then spurning them on the rare occasions they came along.

Only on Wednesday, Mr. Smeisim strode into a hotel well behind American lines and denounced the Iraqi government, accusing it of spurning Mr. Sadr's efforts to make peace.

But in spurning Mr. Ortega's offer, proponents of continuing the contra war will have to show a reluctant Congress that continued bloodshed will wring greater political concessions from the Sandinistas or, perhaps, topple them.

All around him white spurning water filled the air, and he was swirled off balance and tossed like a leaf in the torrent The drop seemed to last for ever, and his stomach swooped against his ribs.

LEAD: Robin Raj, an award-winning copywriter at Chiat/Day, surprised the advertising industry yesterday by spurning a new assignment at the agency's San Francisco office to join Doyle Graf Mabley.

It was the visit O'Casey never tired of describing when they were growing up in the ramshackle Victorian house in Totnes, England, where the gaunt, fiery playwright lived for decades after spurning his native Dublin.

After spurning the love of Echo and causing her death, he was condemned to die of love for his own image in a pool and was changed by Nemesis, the goddess of vengeance and justice, into a daffodil.

They are often inspired by feminists on campus, who point to the inherent power imbalance between a professor who gives grades and writes recommendations and a impressionable young woman who is either flattered by the attention or fearful of spurning it.

A woman may have decided adamantly that she doesn't want some suitor-yet if that suitor should suddenly withdraw for reasons other than her spurning of his suit, a woman inevitably decides to take a closer look at the catch which is busy swimming away.

Mr. Bush exacerbated Mr. Blair's political problems this week by spurning London's requests for the release of nine British citizens still being held in Guantánamo and for lifting steel tariffs ruled illegal by the World Trade Organization.

It was only in the last act that she acted and danced with equal expertise, spurning Onegin, the man she once loved, with a dignity that indicated Tatiana's new maturity but also with a few pangs that suggested that her passion had not died.

Paramount's chairman, Martin S. Davis, after all, had once argued that Time Inc. had wronged its shareholders by spurning a cash bid from Paramount that was vastly superior to the one from Warner Communications that Time ultimately accepted.

The trial here has generated widespread publicity, and, each in their own way, the two sides may see a benefit in spurning any settlement and going forward: doing so might well help Ms. Winfrey's ratings, and the cattle industry might succeed in scaring off other critics.

In works like the stop-animation Lego fantasia for the White Stripes' "Been in Love With a Girl," he developed a style of low-tech surrealism, spurning the latest digital effects for homespun tricks like oversize props, scrim-projected double-images and painstaking animation.

They would stop talking just long enough to spurn him.

If you spurn his company, that would not be so.

Schools that are spurned must become better or go out of business.

But when he wants to leave his wife and children for her, she spurns him.

He was being made an offer too good to spurn.

He walked down the line and spurned them with his foot.

You would join with one family at the risk of spurning another.

But, in the early days of the war, even the most gifted were spurned.

He then, with his foot, spurned her to the floor.

By spurning our own rules, we put that effort at risk.

Several guys came up to her and she spurned their advances.

She also is said to have sought out and killed those who spurned her in earlier years.

They remember when their first foster child was spurned in the hospital by the parents of other children.

Indeed, she had spurned him to the point of embarrassment.

She spurns his offer to spend the night without telling him why.

And what of an athlete who makes the decision to spurn the news media?

For only the second time in 125 years, someone has spurned the lucrative offer.

Weeks ago he would have spurned it as something from a kindergarten class.

You spurned him, and he returned with an army to press his suit.

In all his years of activation, he had never been so spurned.

"I should not like to be spurned much more than that.

But do not expect gratitude from those you have spurned.

I have never believed that consensus is to be spurned.

But under the new rules, benefits will be cut if those opportunities are spurned.

Thus for those who spurn the love of their chief!"