What social recognition can be given to servants who lie, steal, who shirk every duty that can be shirked, and who are both incompetent and unfaithful?

Yet, I would not shirk the work.

" "Yet my idea of what is safest may seem to the rest of you like veriest folly," he replied, as if he would shirk the responsibility, and Master Sitz said, eagerly: "It all seems to me like a piece of folly, Sergeant Corney, even though because of it are we brought out from the power of our enemies.

But in general men shirk this labour, partly because it is irksome, and partly because they have no distinct conception of the rules which would make the labour light.

We tremble at our own greatness, and shirk the sacrifices it demands from us.

He drew a long breath that was like a sobbing sigh; only too well did he understand what he had done, but he had counted the cost, and was not going to shirk the consequences.

Nor did he shirk his task.

The environs of London are undeniably pretty, prettier than those of any other capital in Europe, but there is no shirking the fact that the Northern suburbs of our great metropolis are somewhat grim and soul-depressing.

Your answer is that the war and other happenings have shown you that age is not necessarily another name for sapience; that our avoidance of frankness in life and in the arts is often, but not so often as you think, a cowardly way of shirking unpalatable truths, and that you have taken us off our pedestals because we look more natural on the ground.

You may call me an old fogy, but I would rather live cheap and dress plain than shirk my burdens because I had wasted when they had saved.

But the imbecile commander-in-chief was enjoying himself and shirking care in the mountains; and Lord Canning and his advisers at Calcutta seem to have preferred to allow to take the initiative in their own way.

"Of course you can't understand," he said, with a cowardly resolve to shirk the issue.

And then they shirk the job from dawn to dark.

Macaulay shirked no labor in preparing himself to write the History.

People talk of modern women "shirking" motherhood, but it would be a silly sort of universe in which a large proportion of women had any natural and instinctive desire to shirk motherhood, and, I believe, a huge proportion of modern women are as passionately predisposed towards motherhood as ever women were.

He was a Holiday and no Holiday ever shirked obligations he himself had incurred.

Mike himself, to whom cricket was the great and serious interest in life, had shirked early-morning fielding practice in his first term at Wrykyn.

My father has never shirked his share of the work, and he has only one thought now, and that is to do well for us.

" CHAPTER XVI THEOPHIL ALL THIS TIME Have I seemed to shirk the subject of Theophil's feelings all this time?

The plants flourish without any care or attention, the only trouble being to collect the fiber; and, the bounteousness of Nature having provided them against want, the natives shirk even this trouble when the market price is not very enticing.

She had lingered at the alley's mouth, shirking her entrance into the saloon, and now she saw, halfway down the short, wide street, a gesticulating figure.

Assassination in the abstract is well enough, but you have a disposition to shirk practical examples.

Maulevrier had shirked the expedition, had always put off Mary and Mr. Hammond when they proposed it.

It was partly my fault for telling Peter in the holidays that only old men, invalids, andand cowardswere shirking South Africa.

The Spaniards found these animals as ready to share their dangers as did the people of Colophon or Castabara, who trained cohorts of dogs for war; for the dogs were always in the lead and never shirked a fight.