Lexicographical Neighbors of Spurnings
Literary usage of Spurnings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"So that all the inn seemed nothing else but plaints, cries, screeches, confusions,
fears, dreads, disgraces, slashes, buffets, blows, spurnings, ..."
2. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1892)
"... twitchings,1 — spurnings d posteriori, not to be named. In this accelerated
way, emerges, uncertain which end uppermost, man after man in black, ..."
3. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1903)
"... twitchings,—spurnings a posteriori, not to be named. In this accelerated way
emerges, uncertain which end uppermost, man after man in black, ..."
4. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... twitchings, — spurnings a posteriori, not to be named. In this accelerated
way emerges, uncer- i Weber, ii. 286. ..."
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