81 collocations for eschewing

Those states were aware that the United States in their constitution had left nothing to be "implied" as to the power of Congress over the District;an admonition quite sufficient one would think to put them on their guard, and induce them to eschew vague implications and resort to stipulations.

Tsz-chang in a conversation with Confucius asked, "What say you is essential for the proper conduct of government?" The Master replied, "Let the ruler hold in high estimation the five excellences, and eschew the four evils; then may he conduct his government properly.

Did this letter, love, contain my death, Should you deny my sight of it, I would not Nor see my sorrow nor eschew my danger, But willingly yield me a patient Unto the doom that your displeasure gave.

The tall, thin sisterhood should eschew pointed effects and study to attain apparent breadth by using trimmings arranged horizontally.

They wander about in sheepskins and goatskins, eschewing flesh for their food, and vegetables for their clothing.

Why Mencken eschews the theatre; scents, sweatshop size, buncombe keep Baltimore sage from theatre.

That the Mahommedan mind, thus stimulated and encouraged, should altogether eschew such speculations, could hardly be expected.

We can supply good verses for all these if we take pains to search, and if we eschew ignorant and unpoetic modern doggerel as we eschew poison.

From one class of men, indeed, he learned nothingthe priests, whose society he eschewed with scrupulous vigilance, nor did he ever enter the temples of the Gods.

How much better, I say, it is for the active and thoughtful intellect, where such is to be found, to eschew the college and the university altogether, than to submit to a drudgery so ignoble, a mockery so contumelious!

The ground whereof since I perceive to grow On just respect of this your sole estate, And skilful care of fleeting youth's decay, Your wise foresight such sorrowing to eschew I much commend, and promise as I may To break this matter, and impart your mind Unto your father, and to work it so, As both your honour shall not be impeach'd, Nor he unsatisfied of your desire.

With a cold calculation worthy of a demon, he had made love in the pantomimic way, and eschewed written or verbal communications of an erotic nature.

I begged him not to be disturbed; my voice was troubled, and he spoke to me kindly and encouragingly, exhorting me to eschew riotous companions.

If the dramatist were to eschew all crises that could not be made to resolve themselves with specifically dramatic crispness and decisiveness, he would very seriously limit the domain of his art.

ame blinking out into the fierce sunlight of the Paris streets like captive creatures let loose by an earthquakeand of young students who had eschewed delight and lived laborious days for knowledge and art which had been overthrown by war's brutality.

It must utterly eschew theahunpleasant and repugnant details of life.

The office was that of representative in the state legislature, and the candidates were a hatter and a saddler; the former was also a militia major, and a Methodist preacher, of the Percival and Gordon school, who eschewed the devil and all the backsliding abominations of the flesh, as in duty bound.

Mrs. Rushmore had severely eschewed diminutives.

We can supply good verses for all these if we take pains to search, and if we eschew ignorant and unpoetic modern doggerel as we eschew poison.

Unwilling to eschew any emotion that thus stirred his fellow citizens, he approached the outskirts and waited, in hopes of gathering information without further inquiry.

This may be a convenient place for a few words on the modern fashion of eschewing emphasis, not only in last acts, but at every point where the old French dramaturgy demanded it, and especially in act-endings.

That the essential Saxon purity of our tongue has been preserved is to the credit not of sensible unlettered people eschewing new fashions they could not comprehend, but to the scholars themselves.

In the same spirit one of our Elizabethan poets delivered his wholesome advice: "Eschew the idle vein Flee, flee from doing nought!

The girls are learning more self-respectif they could only achieve that and eschew the other follies it would be a clear gain.

He may even eschew plaid frocks and don modish garmentsthat would hide bandy-legs still less!

81 collocations for  eschewing