Shunned

Examples

• She ever shunned high-roads, and sought byways and lonely lanes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• America does not play with ideas; generous speculation is regarded as insincere, and shunned as if it might endanger the optimism which underlies success. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I am shunned when I visit her; she withdraws from my reach. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Shirley can feel when she is slighted and shunned. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I am malicious because I am miserable; am I not shunned and hated by all mankind? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I will not have this room shunned as if it were infected, at the pleasure of a child. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I felt veneration for St. John--veneration so strong that its impetus thrust me at once to the point I had so long shunned. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• His father, Sir Felix Glyde, had suffered from his birth under a painful and incurable deformity, and had shunned all society from his earliest years. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Mrs. Hatch's MILIEU was one which he had once assiduously frequented, and now as devoutly shunned. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Think on 't once agen, lad, afore thou'rt shunned by aw owd friends. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I shunned the face of man; all sound of joy or complacency was torture to me; solitude was my only consolation--deep, dark, death-like solitude. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I looked up at him: he shunned my eye. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Many a look was turned towards him, and many a doubtful glance he cast on either side to see whether any knew and shunned him. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Stephen worked the next day, and the next, uncheered by a word from any one, and shunned in all his comings and goings as before. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• By instinct I shunned the refectory, and shaped my course to Madame's sitting-room: I burst in. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• That a sense of his deep disgrace so worked upon my own father that he shunned all--there, we have said enough, Harry, we have said enough. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• As I had always shunned the port of London, I only knew the church through his pointing out its spire from on board. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Never free to compromise her self-respect, to seek where she had been shunned. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Neighbours were as kind as they were wont to be of old, but she shunned their greetings with averted head. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

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