" The sketch when completed was of a sort to be shunned by a timid person on the verge of slumber.
By instinct I shunned the refectory, and shaped my course to Madame's sitting-room: I burst in.
Teachers might indeed go there with impunity; but as the walk was narrow, and the neglected shrubs were grown very thick and close on each side, weaving overhead a roof of branch and leaf which the sun's rays penetrated but in rare chequers, this alley was seldom entered even during day, and after dusk was carefully shunned.
Heathcliff shunned meeting us at meals; yet he would not consent formally to exclude Hareton and Cathy.
I did not mind their skirmishes: but Hareton was often obliged to seek the kitchen also, when the master wanted to have the house to himself; and though in the beginning she either left it at his approach, or quietly joined in my occupations, and shunned remarking or addressing him—and though he was always as sullen and silent as possible—after a while, she changed her behaviour, and became incapable of letting him alone: talking at him; commenting on his stupidity and idleness; expressing her w
On the day succeeding Isabella's unexpected visit I had no opportunity of speaking to my master: he shunned conversation, and was fit for discussing nothing.
Heathcliff was about the place; and I shunned going out, because I still carried his letter in my pocket, and didn't want to be threatened or teased any more.
" Quite a thrill pervaded the school at this confession, for Jerry was one of the wild fellows the boys all shunned, and to have any dealings with him was considered a very disgraceful thing.
Already, in the second year, Tom's salary was raised; but all, except the price of his dinner and clothes, went home into the tin box; and he shunned comradeship, lest it should lead him into expenses in spite of himself.
"You wouldn't think so if you saw my house in Hampstead," she said, a vision of that austere and hard-seated dwelling presenting itself to her mind, with nothing soft in it except the shunned and neglected Du Barri sofa.
Although my book is intended mainly for the entertainment of boys and girls, I hope it will not be shunned by men and women on that account, for part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in.
Often greeted by disregard and disvalue, , shunned by society and left to be ignored for their lack of conformity to what the masses would call publicly acceptable.
Conformity always includes a threat of punishment if you fail to fit in, whether it comes from ridicule, being shunned by others, or direct attack.
Not all of his coworkers shunned Jobs.
Taylor Swift has shunned the traditional interview with British Vogue, and instead written a poem for her fans which will be published in the January issue.
We just had another World Meat Free Day, where many people shunned burgers and bolognese for beans and beluga lentils.
We just had another World Meat Free Day, where many people shunned burgers and bolognese for beans and beluga lentils.
Embellishment also divided actresses in half - with winners split 50-50 - while wraps were shunned by the vast majority of winners.
Prince Harry appeared to have looked to his sister-in-law for style advice also pictured in a puffa jacket in navy blue and appeared, too, to have shunned joggers in favour of jeans.
Be ridiculed, be shunned, be ignored, be told no.
