Coy Hebe flies from those that woo, And shuns the hands would seize upon her, Follow thy life, and she will sue To pour for thee the cup of honor.
Coy Hebe flies from those that woo, And shuns the hands would seize upon her; Follow thy life, and she will sue To pour for thee the cup of honor.
Who shuns true friends flies fortune in the concrete Who venerate when they love Who rises from Prayer a better man, his prayer is answered Who cannot talk!
Who shuns true friends flies fortune in the concrete Winter mornings are divine.
Who shuns true friends flies fortune in the concrete Would he see what he aims at?
Now out upon the recreant Knight Who courts yet shuns the field!
He shunsthe crowded highways, and delights to hear wisdom speaking in confidential tones.
He shuns the innocent questioners who would draw him out, as if they were so many dunning creditors.
It is well never to waste strength in proving more than is essential, and always to avoid a side issue as oneshuns a road leading to sure destruction.
Professor Reed, of the University of Pennsylvania, admirably says:-- The false fastidiousness which shuns a short particle at the end of a sentence is often fatal to a force which belongs to the language in its primal character.
One Monk of a taciturn nature distinguishes himself among these babbling ones: the name of him Samson; he that answered Jocelin, "Fili mi, a burnt child shuns the fire.
From beneath his cowl flash the piercing eyes, whose very glance will daunt the bravest heart; his sallow visage is furrowed with the traces of bygone passions; he shuns society, and is dreaded by his associates.
Everybody shuns her, and she finds herself alone and forsaken.
He not only avoids his father and mother, but also shuns Ophelia, who vainly tries to understand his strange behaviour.
Our civilization shuns nature; and most shuns it in the most artificially civilized, to suit the market.
He'd have had it before, only Lord Ormont shuns a scandal.
It is but a single body he has; he shuns being wounded; he avoids being taken.
Neither battle nor battle-field nor combat nor contest shuns he, the one who is come thither.
We must not reproach her, or she shuns us; I have found that out.
Rather, shuns he the thought, as though fearing the All-Merciful might not be with him.
The lover too shunsbusiness and alarms, Tender idolater of absent charms.
Love causes grief, but 'tis to move And stimulate the slumbering mind; And he has never tasted love, Who shuns a pang so graciously design'd.
Sir, on my return, be not the only Savile who shuns our table of Warwick Court.
Men fear only him who does not know them, and he who shuns them will soon misjudge them.
Fatetur facinus is qui judicium fugit=--He who shuns a trial confesses his guilt.
Death shuns the wretch who fain the blow would meet.
The wise man often shuns society for fear of= 10 =being bored.
He is immensely vain of his physical beauty; he shuns pedicatio and does not much care for the sexual act, but likes long hours of voluptuous communion during which his lover admires him.
He shuns touching him with the hand, kisses him only on the forehead, sings his praise in verse, a woman's never.
In the books kept on the conduct Of all high and low officials In the State and Church departments, It is mentioned as a wonder That he strictly shuns all women.
The Italian gnomes there often Bathe and frolic with the daughters Of old Nereus, the sea-god, And the sailor shuns the grotto.
If to-day with angry Bhishma Arjun shuns the dubious fight, Shame on Krishna!
The Mahometans also have their heaven; for all in the universe, who acknowledge a God, and from a religious notion shuns evils as sins against him, are saved.
Every one who believes in the Lord, and shunsevils as sins, performs uses from the Lord; but every one who neither believes in the Lord, nor shuns evils as sins, does uses from self and for the sake of self.
The House-carrier is the snail, of course; and he shuns the heat of the ground, not the Pleiades.
You shall begin your harvesting-- When the House-carrier shuns the Pleiades, And climbs the stalks to get a little ease.
See again, He shuns the certain proofs; and dares not stand Impartial judgment, and award of right.
You've set an image of so vast destruction Before my sight, that reason shuns the approach, And dares not view the fearful precipice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shuns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
