1036 examples of shuns in sentences

Thou shade of Death, through whom the soul at length Shuns pain and sadness hostile to the heart, Whom mourners find their last and sure relief!

Learning he shuns that he may live at ease; And since the world is little to his mind, God and God's ruling Forethought he denies.

Flie from thy foe, Ascanio is thy friend: The fearfull hare so shuns the labouring hound,

The career of a mere rake, who shuns no means of gratifying his low appetites, has little analogy with that of an originally honest inquirer, led astray by the want of faith and his sensual nature.

soon he shall pursue: Shuns he thy gifts?

So wings the wounded Deer her headlong flight, Pierced by some ambush'd archer of the night, 265 Shoots to the woodlands with her bounding fawn, And drops of blood bedew the conscious lawn; There hid in shades she shuns the cheerful day, Hangs o'er her young, and weeps her life away.

"The angel, Pity, shuns the walks of war!

As far as he is successful in his endeavors, he cannot be said to have lived a life of illusion; for the evils which he shuns are very real.

With the fortune she has won from her various lovers Glicera retires from the world and henceforth shuns the society of men.

It would not methinks be an useless Comparison between the Condition of a Man who shuns all the Pleasures of Life, and of one who makes it his Business to pursue them.

LEONIS When o'er the agèd lion steals The instinct of approaching death, Whose numbing grasp he vaguely feels In trembling limbs and labored breath, He shuns the garish light of day, And leaving mate and whelps at play, In mournful silence creeps away.

The sentence read: "He durst not, because what a noble heart dares least is to belie the plighted word, and what the kind heart shuns most is to wrong the confiding friend.

Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays, Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.

Behold the leering belle, caress'd by all, Adorn each private feast and public ball, 140 Where peers attentive listen and adore, And not one matron shuns the titled whore.

If he shuns man in Kentucky, he must haunt the long lonely river valleys where the wild cedars grow.

He shuns the presentthe historical past seems alone to concern him.

it is not in our power to have recourse to any established laws of speech; but we must remark how the writers of former ages have used the same word, and consider whether he can be acquitted of impropriety, upon the testimony of Davies, given in his favour by a similar passage: She loaths the wat'ry glass wherein she gaz'd, And shuns it still, although for thirst she dye.

The association exercises the power of life and death; every body shuns him, whose head it has proscribed.

Tho now he Shuns thy longing Arms, He soon shall court thy slighted Charms; Tho now thy Offrings he despise, He soon to thee shall Sacrifice; Tho now he freeze, he soon shall burn, And be thy Victim in his turn.

It would not methinks be an useless Comparison between the Condition of a Man who shuns all the Pleasures of Life, and of one who makes it his Business to pursue them.

The last is often known under the term of white ants, in which we count the deadly termite, the yellow corslet termite, the termite that shuns the light, the biter, the destroyer" "And those that constructed this ant-hill?" asked Dick Sand.

They were preachers to the corporate conscience of Israel, and dealt with subjects which the modern pulpit effeminately shuns.

2 Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died.

It is by virtue of the higher perfection of the idea that it shuns any adequate union with an external form, since it can seek and attain its true reality and expression best within itself.

That rout has been traced, to our shame, in history; the pen of the novelist shuns the disgraceful theme.

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