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And all eyes are on Craig Mackail-Smith - spurner of two fine opportunities.

From BBC • May 29, 2011

“The non-hero returns. The ungrateful, the selfish, the spurner of gifts. Come to complain some more?”

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

Sweet on cornfields and the Baby; Yet of Romney's grace no spurner, Or the golden dreams of Turner.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 22, 1890 by Various

Unfortunately the bishop was also of a proud and unyielding character, and he nursed resentment in his heart against this spurner of his authority.

From Legends of the Rhine by Ruland, Wilhelm

Is this the fault of themselves, of nature in tempering them of too fine a clay, or of the world, that spurner of living, and patron of dead merit?

From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Waller, Alfred Rayney