With this latter purpose he sallied out in the dusk through the well-known streets, carefully shunning observation, but in vain: one of the first persons whom he met at once recognised him.
But I must request of the reader to suppose that this kind and disinterested purpose was concealed by the most cautious delicacy, studiously shunning the most distant approach to affectation.
The descriptions possess a wonderful distinctness and vigor, presenting the images to the mind by a few bold and grand lines, thus shunning the confusion of intricate and minute detail.
But that he retreats Although at first incensed, shunning my wrath, Is salutary both for him and me, Whose difference else had not been healed with ease.
First to his charioteers he gave in charge Their duty; bade them rein their horses hard, Shunning confusion.
On the contrary, she preferred shunning it; as was shown by her reply.
Without any strong reason for shunning them, the Mexican maiden has no desire to encounter "Los Tejanos.
The avoidance of the menstruous woman is an even more widespread custom than the shunning of pregnancy, probably because this function was interpreted as a symptom of demonic possession.
Even as the savage will not have his idol polluted by contact with his own personality, however indirect, so he would himself avoid pollution in similar fashion by shunning that which is unclean.
The new family begins with the ceremonial breach of taboo,--the taboo which enjoins the shunning of woman as a being both sacred and unclean.
He was thoroughly chagrined and soured by this event; retired to those ruins, or rather to the small cottage that adjoins them, and there lived to the day of his death, shunning society, and certainly not exceeding his income.
Nor, moreover, would he, who so constantly sends us to Scripture for the notes of the Church Catholic, condemn us for shunning communions, which had been so little sensitive of the charge made against them of idolatry.
He quickly changed his demeanor, however, upon perceiving that I was bent upon shunning a meeting.
If you go through college shunning everyone, afraid of your own shadow, surly to the approach of all who would be friendly to you, you will reap nothing but loneliness and a bitter 'grouch.
There was a rift in the earth, where torrent water gathered and brake part of the track away, and hollowed all the place; there drave Menelaos, shunning the encounter of the wheels.
Mourning so often goes alone, that I should think grief might be excused for shunningits company.
This light-shunning embassy trembles at the sound of words, but the spectre betrays itself in your ghastly visage.
Three days already you have wandered on, Shunning the eye of man--wild herbs and root Your only nourishment.
There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool and tends his pasturing flocks At loop-holes cut through thickest shade.
I wish you may keep to your resolution of shunning that place, for it will do you immense injury if you do not.
You shall discover to them, the snares which are laid for them by the evil spirit, and teach them the means of shunning them.
I do think I spend a wretched life; for the last two years shunning all society, because I cannot bring myself to walk up to people and say, "I am deaf.
A deep sorrow, and tender remembrance of the dead carried about with her in religious silence, shunning common sight and common comment, did not prevent this.
He hastened through the narrow, dark streets to his own home, shunning the crowded bazaars and picking out the winding byways that lead between the high walls of the residence portion of the city near the river.
Just then the sound of horses' feet upon the road came to her ears; the monkeys vanished; and Mrs. Burbanks forgot her annoyance in greeting her husband as he drove up in a covered gari, shunning the light even of the setting sun.
The shunning will, it need not be doubted, take good care of itself.
If he does not care enough for it to take the necessary risks, when the bare thought of shunning them makes you flush hotly, he cannot have it.
His conversation was so intelligent, and at times even brilliant, that she could not help being interested, and she observed that he resolutely chose subjects of an impersonal character, shunning everything relating to himself.
