" "Jesus Christ never shirked, Rege.

Jack had ingloriously shirked his part in the battle with the Caribees; he had skulked in the bushes until the issue was decided, and then had followed the sympathies of his secession family; he had gone to the Atterburys, well known for their hatred to the North.

" The sergeant was right, as I now understood full well, and, although I craved not the dangerous work, because my comrades were near at hand I desired they should see that I shirked not peril.

He would have shirked this one if he could, but it had to be faced, so he rushed it.

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.

He never shirked anything, physical or moral.

But the importance of the subject will not permit it to be thus shirked.

One does not know whether to praise Mr. Sheldon for having adroitly avoided an anticlimax, or to reproach him with having unblushingly shirked a difficulty.

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

He knew, however, that the men needed a leader, not a superintendent, and he would not urge them to efforts he shirked.

I've taken it on myself to speak to you about this, and I shouldn't be your friend if I shirked it.

In truth, I am afraid that it must be considered either a not very creditable thing to them, that they should have concealed the fact of my being an accomplice; or else a most discreditable one to me that I was invited to be one, and that I shirked it.

As I lay me down, I could not but reflect, with a smile which I knew to be evil, upon that steady, strong, smouldering lust within me which was urging me through all those pains at the Arsenal, I who shirked every labour as unkingly.

But at any rate, this Vauclaire, or Valclear, was well named: for here, if anywhere, is Paradise, and if anyone knew how and where to build and brew liqueurs, it was those good old monks, who followed their Master with entrain in that Cana miracle, and in many other things, I fancy, but aesthetically shirked to say to any mountain: 'Be thou removed.'

He had a voice, though not a remarkable one, but he had shirked the labour of trying to improve it by practice.

But ciliated funnels come not to those who have shirked the laboratory practice.

He plunged at the point he had shirked, "How did you know it was Miss Heydinger?" Ethel's voice took upon itself the quality of tears.

Azuma-zi, however, shirked the discussion of his gods, even though he was kicked for it.

You said you would go with us, and shirked because you were afraid of a bit of wind.

My questionings were neither shirked nor discouraged by Mr. D; he was not horrified nor was he sanctimoniously rebukeful, but met them all with a wide comprehension inexpressibly soothing to one writhing in the first agonies of doubt.

Were they for those who fought the rules and shirked the cares and dug for themselves a pit of sorrow?

What kept him to his agreement was the hope of stealing the spare mules, and the fear that the draft might not be paid if he shirked his work.

He had shirked duty for several years, and had been known as a reliable business man at Summit.

Not a word on the feud was uttered; and the pair walked down to the village, where she was exemplary, going into all those more distasteful parts of her duties there, which she sometimes shirked.

" "But remember," he added, "there is much that can't be shirked.