The reply was, "There is Tan-t'ai Mieh-ming, who when walking eschews by-paths, and who, unless there be some public function, never approaches my private residence.

"I'm not the old maid that eschews matrimony; all I want is to choose for you and Prue.

The doubled night, the sun's restrained course, His secret stealths, the slander to eschew, In shape transform'd, we list not to discourse.

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.

Since so is your request, that I shall do, Although my mind so sorrowful a thing Repines to tell, and though my voice eschews To say what I have seen; yet since your will So fixed stands to hear for what I rue, Your great desires I shall herein fulfil.

One would have thought that the Englishman, who keeps his body fitter for games, eschews beer for his liver's sake, and finds that intimacy with the native population lowers his prestige, would have done far better in this war than the German.

And then Noah entered in and his sons, his wife, and the wives of his sons, all into the ark to eschew the waters of the flood.

All provinces came into Egypt for to buy meat to them, and to eschew the hunger.

The cadence of the motion is triple, instead of in common time like that of the trot, and you will soon distinguish the difference, but eschew cantering at first.

So let us, which this chaunge of weather vew, Chaunge eke our mynds, and former lives amend; The old yeares sinnes forepast let us eschew, And fly the faults with which we did offend.

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

Our modern practice eschews such licenses.

The Liberal party has believed that while it was the duty of England above all things to eschew an ostentatious policy, it was also the duty of England to have a tender and kindly feeling for the smaller States of Europe, because it is in the smaller States of Europe that liberty has most flourished; and it is in the smaller States of Europe that liberty is most liable to be invaded by lawless aggression.

So Tennyson, the greatest of our living poets, eschews as much as possible, in his later writings, these same epithets, except in cases where they are themselves objective and pictorialin short, the very things which he wants you to look at, as, for instance: And into silver arrows break The sailing moon in creek and cove.

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.

If we could even now bind our generals to imitate our Cabinet in its admirable and novel policy of silence,to eschew pen and ink as carefully as if they were in training for the Presidency!

How could they, unless they had a clear light, and an infallible standard within them, whereby, amidst the relations they sustained and the interests they had to provide for, they might discriminate between truth and falsehood, right and wrong, what they ought to attempt and what they ought to eschew?

But pardon, lady, scarcely need I tell, That song delights in Nature's haunts to dwell; Eschews the regal robe and stately throne, To walk, enraptured, in a world its own.

Yet when a lieutenant is asked to state what it is really like being along with the B.E.F. when it is in its pushful mood, he sedulously eschews heroics, and will not commit himself to saying more than that it's all rightthat he doesn't think there is any cause for anxiety.

'The poor young lady can't help it if her feet are big,' said Hester, who was quite alive to the grace of a well-made pair of boots, although she had been taught to eschew braided hair and pearls and gold.

It eschews the local and narrow, refuses to belong to any sect or party, and appeals by the widest culture to men of culture.

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

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

The Nightingale thus in my hearing spake: Good Cuckoo, seek some other bush or brake, And, prithee, let us that can sing dwell here; For every wight eschews thy song to hear, Such uncouth singing verily dost thou make.

Considering that they dig, delve, carry burthens, and perform many more athletic exercises than pulling a light oar, I was rather amused at this; but it was the singular fact of seeing a white woman stretch her sinews in any toilsome exercise which astounded them, accustomed as they are to see both men and women of the privileged skin eschew the slightest shadow of labour, as a thing not only painful but degrading.