There happened to be on board the boat an excursion party from Lexington, Missouri, and those comprising it seemed to shun me, for some reason which I could not then account for.

Duty to shun I fear.

Yet Aboniel did not wholly shun intercourse with mankind, but, on the contrary, had seven pupils, towardly youths belonging to the noblest families of the city, whom he instructed at stated times in philosophy and all lawful knowledge, reserving the forbidden lore of magic and alchemy for himself.

Take the advice of one which knows, & try to shun the evil, To see a woman in man's close Looks wusser nor the d-l.

"Shun my example," he said, "shudder at the life I have led.

" "O mamma, I have long'd to confess all the day What an ill-natured thing I have done; I persuaded myself it was only in play, But such play I in future will shun.

The traditional view is that by persuading the reader to adhere to the good and shun the evil the poet achieves the proper end of poetrymoral improvement.

He must move his readers to share the emotions of his characters, to shun vice, and embrace virtue.

Nor, as we are, we say we will not shun it; So tell your master.

Ione, there is a grave in the churchyard under the hill, The villagers shun like the unblest haunt of a ghost, Dropped there out of a dark spring night, I remember still, For a foreign ship had anchored that night on the coast; On the gray stone tablet is written this one word "Rest.

For, "seeing," saith he, "an oath doth call God for witness, and proposeth Him for umpire and voucher of the things it saith; therefore to induce God so upon occasion of human affairs, or, which is all one, upon small and slight accounts, doth imply contempt of Him: wherefore we ought wholly to shun swearing, except upon occasions of highest necessity.

Such persons we are enjoined to shun and decline; but first we must endeavour by sober advice and admonition to reclaim them; we must not thus reject them till they appear contumacious and incorrigible, refusing to hear us, or becoming deaf to reproof.

To shun thy notice, leave thine eye, O whither might I take my way?

Wilt thou forgive that sin which I have won Others to sin, and made my sins their door? Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two, but wallowed in a score?

but this, that thou art good, And that myself am blind Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill; And, binding Nature fast in Fate, Left free the human will: What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than heaven pursue.

When the ex-convict is able to show that he is useful to the world, the world will cease to shun him.

Some expectation that his lady would repent of her part in the separation probably induced him to linger in the vicinity of Geneva, the thoroughfare of the travelling English, whom he affected to shun.

If it was the work of designing persons, such a step would be but to expose herself to danger, whilst, if the effect of supernatural agency, she could neither learn what they wished to conceal, nor shun what they chose to reveal.

Old friends and neighbours, who had been the first to shun them, now became the loud and vehement partisans of the family.

A respectable English writer observed:"All pages of human life are worth reading; the wise instruct; the gay divert us; the imprudent teach us what to shun; the absurd cure the spleen.

"You have not resolution to fly from the danger which you counsel me to shun.

My very servants shun my company.

A minister, who has in his congregation a man of open and scandalous wickedness, may warn his parishioners to shun his conversation.

How strange and yet how undeniable is it that such a house should attract the men whose self-interest, one would imagine, would lead them to shun it, and if they must spend their hard-won earnings, at least to get a good article for their money!

Their aid they yield to all; they never shun The man of sorrow, or the wretch undone.