"Shun" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as my bread is made clean on one side, it behoves me to cleanse it on the other, in order to shun this reproof: that my writing, which one may term, as it were, a Commentary, is appointed to remove obscurity from the before-mentioned Songs, and is, in fact, itself at times a little hard to understand. This obscurity is ...
— The Banquet (Il Convito) • Dante Alighieri
... choice being confirmed, he was sent to his native country, duly provided with a seal of investiture, as a vassal of the empire under the style of Sri Prakrama Bahu VI.,—and from that period till the reign of Teen-shun, A.D. 1434-1448, Ceylon continued to pay an annual ...
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent
... more difficult to compose than a letter of consolation or condolence. The more earnestly you desire to express sympathy and impart solace, the more impossible it seems to find gentle and appropriate terms. You would shun commonplaces and avoid sermonizing. You wish to say something simple, kind, soothing. And yet the reflection of how far short of the exigencies of the grief you would mitigate, fails your best and most effectual efforts, oppresses and restrains ...
— Continental Monthly , Vol IV, Issue VI, December 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy. • Various
... shoot on, thou fine fellow, Shoot as thou hast begun; If thou shoot here a summer's day, Thy mark I will not shun. ...
— The Book of Brave Old Ballads • Unknown
... with all: her evil star That rules o'er sinking realms shone like the sun— Her lights waxed dim and died out one by one— Woe o'er the land hung like a funeral pall: The sword the bold could brave, the coward shun, But famine followed fast and fell on all— Pale lips cried oft for food which came not ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 19, - Issue 549 (Supplementary issue) • Various
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