But he had his part to play, and he did not intend to shirk it.
He did not shirkthese mix ups, for he was endowed with the bravery of the unimaginative.
Oh, please don't think I do not dread the thought of your going to the front, and perhaps being killed; but I cannot bear the thought that my boy should shirk his duty to his country.
She thinks it such a disgrace for any man to shirk at such a time as this, that she thought they should be shamed to some sense of decency and pluck.
Even the poorest millionaire cannot shirk the responsibilities of wealth.
But the average Mexican, too, has the Spanish horror of water, and though he will keep up appearances like a schoolboy who washes down to where his Eton collar comes, he will shirk more serious ablutions whenever possible.
They cannot wriggle out of that blame: they cannot shirk it.
I felt that you would not shirk it, and yet I realize how painful it must be to you.
And yet no one shall say of me that I shirkmy duty.
It was characteristic of her that she did not now shirk a task imposed by her sense of duty.
I did not shirk my tasks at the store, although I never got over the feeling that a fine instrument was being employed where a coarser one would have done equally well.
We, who have always pinned our faith to ideas, who entered the conflict for an Idea, must be the last to shirk the task, however Herculean, of world reconstruction along the lines of our own professed faith.
I never possessed any quality but a wild spirit for adventure, to shirk work.
Acceptance of authority is not faith, it is mere credulity, it is to shirk the real issue.
She did not shirk hers, and was willing to accept a full measure.
I hope it is as you say, that you have arrived at a settled conviction as to your future, and that this is not another of those caprices to which you have been subject, nor a desire to shirk honest work.
I'm sure you'd never stoop to second fiddle, And--I might shirk The part of serf.
That Tibbie intended to shirk the consequences of her misdemeanour was only too clearly proved to Janice, when later she went to her room to prink for supper, for lying on her dressing stand was the miniature.
However, we were not going to shirk the task just because it happened to be unpleasant, and being fairly in for it, we made the best of it.
Nothing could be more unnatural than that a good woman should shirk her duty to the State.
It carries duties with it, duties which are imperative and which to shirk is filching benefits without rendering an equivalent.
If you put any duty upon women they are not going to shirk it.
But it would be cowardly if I tried to shirkmy duty.
I hope you are not trying to shirk your obligations, because if you do, by gad, I shall have to teach you a lesson.
So our girls found that our Branton Hills boys didn't shirk work of any kind, if brought right up against want.
In this cloud of mixed metaphor, Mr. Sapp returned to Shirk Corners, and took up his quarters at the village hotel.
He invited all gentlemen of respectability into the private office of the Shirk House, and treated to champagne and cigars.
Armitage, who was spending the summer at the sea-shore at Shirk Corners.
He knew that he had in me one man who was not afraid of work, as he would say, and who would not shirk it.
There is disorder because we shirk our duty as a community," he stated, "and we shirk our duty as a community because we believe in our hearts that we aren't a community.
Let it never be said I am ever a shirk When a dinner depends on the way that I work," retorted Hal, and forthwith fell to his task with a vim that put Upton on his mettle to break even with him, for Hal was no mean axeman, as Pat well knew.
Then he hastily crawled from his blankets, his good humor fully restored, for Hal was a good sport, and there was nothing of the shirk about him.
Sit doon," thundered MacLure; "condemned ye will be suner or later gin ye shirk yir duty, but through the water ye gang the day.
But God had shown them their work and they could not shirk it.
But he did not shirk this new task that came to him.
Would she, then, honorably wear the sackcloth, or would she dishonestly shirk it under the false issue of her nephew's improper tone to her?
It was well enough he should feel he must not shirk his duty, but how much better if he could be led to see that marrying where he did not love was no duty of his.
It is to be feared, however, that the modern tendency in both respects is to shirk the responsibilities of parenthood on grounds which are thoroughly selfish.
For you seem to shirk your duties, and you can have no share in the joy of the birds that work; you are not a father.
I was informed by both Captain Shirk and Captain Odlin that the gunboats there, and the fort, had expended a great deal of ammunition and were getting short of it.
Captain Shirkand all his officers did everything in their power to aid us.
Ammunition both for the army and navy was immediately sent up; a division of gunboats from the Cumberland river, Captain Fitch commanding, came down after the fight and re-enforced Captain Shirk at Paducah.
Our forces retired into Fort Anderson, and there made their stand--assisted by some gunboats belonging to the command of Captain Shirk of the navy--successfully repelling the attacks of the enemy.
Lieutenant Shirk is an admirable officer, vigilant, brave, and of exceedingly safe judgment.
The whole thing strikes me as a splendid lesson in civics--that we cannot shirk our duty, even as high officials.
Harrison, mayor of the city of Chicago, responsible, as he has shown a lamentable lack of force in his efforts to shirk responsibility, evidenced by testimony of Building Commissioner George Williams and Fire Marshal William H.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shirk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
