357 examples of shirking in sentences

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.

It surprises me to find so many people shirking over the mention of non-co-operation.

There was no strutting, no posing, no shirking, but an evident intention on the part of all concerned, from General Schwan down, to do whatever had to be done without unnecessary fuss and feathers, promptly and well.

The feeling began to grow, however, that the hero was shirking.

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.

The farmer had much ill-temper, laziness, and shirking, to endure from his hand-sawyers until one day he bethought him to put his saw-mill on the edge of a waterfall; and the river never tires of turning his wheel; the river is good-natured, and never hints an objection.

Possibly in them, and in the world's other ugly facts, Potterism and all truth-shirking found whatever justification it had.

I have been a church member for forty years, paying my dues in accordance with the terms of that institution and shirking none of its responsibilities.

She says she wants somebody to do her work for her, and yet she wants to feel all right about shirking it!" Mrs. Marshall did not follow, and did not care.

Robert's excited imagination magnified them fivefold, but he had no thought of shirking the battle, and he crept to the very brink, seeking something at which to fire in the clouds of smoke that were steadily growing larger and blacker.

Social conventions of many sorts were flouted; local factions resorted to terrorism against their opponents; legislatures abused their power by confiscating loyalist property and enacting laws for the dishonest promotion of debtor-class interests, and the central government, made pitiably weak by the prevailing jealousy of control, was kept wholly incompetent through the shirking of burdens by states pledged to its financial support.

Why, but that justice is brought home to every member of society,that naked duty requires no shirking of such responsibility,that, had I failed here, the crime might, with reason, lie at my door and multiply, the criminal increase himself?

That very day he found Arthur unconsciously and even patronizingly shirking the tending of a planer so that his teacher, Bud Rollins, had to do double work.

No more shame; no more shirking or shrinking; no more lingering on the irrevocable.

"Dory is so generous," she thought, with the not acutely painful kind of remorse we lay upon the penitential altar for our own shortcomings, "that he doesn't realize how I'm shirking and letting him do all the pulling.

Waugh, who had risen from the ranks, Howells, who had begun as shipping clerk, despised those above whom they had risen, regarded as the peculiar weaknesses of the working classes such universal failings as prejudice, short-sightedness, and shirking.

I'll have no idling and shirking because I'm ill. Go down and take down the shutters directly.

For the Vicar was full of gloom and of suspicion in the half hour before prayer-time, and at the spurt of the match he might come out blustering and insist on knowing what she was doing and where she was going, whereas presently he would know, and he might be quiet as long as he was satisfied that she wasn't shirking Prayers.

These visions of the poet are very faint and delicate things; there is little of robust confidence about them, while there are plenty of loud and insistent voices on every side of him to tell him that he is shirking the work of the world, and that he is not lifting a finger in the cause of humanity and progress.

Sincerity implies courage, and Law was a brave man, never shirking the logical outcome of his convictions, from the day when he ruined his prospects at Cambridge, to the later years when he suffered his really considerable reputation to be eclipsed by his espousal of an uncomprehended and unpopular mysticism.

On Monday morning I sent for Dr. Porter, and stated the trouble about nurses shirking.

Right Reason steps in to prevent our shirking it.

They pass foolish or unconstitutional laws, relying on the governor to veto them, or the courts to declare them voidwhich has the effect of shirking their responsibility and imposing unjust and obnoxious duties on the other branches of government, to which they do not fairly belong; increases the growing disrespect for all law, and deteriorates the moral and intellectual fibre of the legislature itself.

Then, as the curtain fell, he retired with many bowsand in the wings gave the Marvel a hot time for shirking the biscuit trick.

The elders in their pride of knowledge, and the real-estate promoters in their greed for gain, have been urging the young man to own his house on penalty of shirking his plain duty.

357 examples of  shirking  in sentences