Ovid tells a rather different story, saying that women, in retribution for Orpheus's rejection of marriage offers, ganged up and threw stones and spears.
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Having rebuffed the local warlord's marriage offer, Yim Wing-Chun said she'd reconsider the proposal if he could beat her in a fight.
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After her return, Anges was again under the influence of her father s marriage policy and she got a marriage offer from Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor.
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As Batumunkh was the last living descendant of Genghis Khan, Mandukhai had him proclaimed Dayan Khan, and she rejected the marriage offer by Unubold, a powerful noble.
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Some believe that she was assassinated by the Kurdish leadership which feared her influence, while the Kurds maintain that she was murdered by a jealous lover after she rejected his marriage offer.
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Andross instructs Kip to accept Tisis Malargos's marriage offer, both so he can spy for Andross and to get him off the Jaspers before any more assassination attempts can come.
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She soon became the target of marriage offers but she felt a strong call to religious life in which she was torn between the contemplative cloister and working with the poor and the sick.
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A body of demographic research presented at the conference of the Population Association of America here Sunday indicates that marriage offers dramatic emotional, financial and even health benefits over the single life and cohabitation.
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Allison Waldman of AOL TV wrote : " Is he sincere, or is Colin just using Jill to get to Cane ? " Jill accepted his " insane marriage offer " and considered eloping.
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In " Maborosi, " the feature debut that brought him international fame in 1995, a young widow is haunted by grief over her husband's suicide even after a new marriage offers happiness.
