scorns

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My bold ambition, destitute of grace, Scorns still to beg their votes from place to place.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac

Next Gavaya comes, whose haughty mind Scorns all the warriors of his kind.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

Here my bold Missisippi bends his way, Scorns the dim bounds of yon bleak boreal day, And calls from western heavens, to feed his stream, The rains and floods that Asian seas might claim.

From The Columbiad by Barlow, Joel

Who spurns the expedient for the right Scorns money's all-attractive charms, And through mean crowds that clogged his flight Has nobly cleared his conquering arms.

From Chippinge Borough by Weyman, Stanley J.

Clothed with these, my nimble soul Scorns earth's hated shore, Cleaves the skies upon the wind, Sees the clouds left far behind.

From The Consolation of Philosophy by James, H. R. (Henry Rosher)