eschew
Definition: to abstain or keep away from; shun, avoid
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Jane Eyre - By Charlotte Bront
...Well may he eschew the calm of domestic life; it is not his element : there his faculties stagnate--they can not develop or appear to advantage ....
Kidnapped - By Robert Louis Stevenson
...Now this was one of the things I had been brought up to eschew like disgrace; it being held by my father neither the part of a Christian nor yet of a gentleman to set his own livelihood and fish for that of others, on the cast of painted pasteboard ....
The life of Cicero - By Anthony Trollope
...Such humanity on the part of a Roman at such a period is to me marvellous, beautiful, almost divine; but, in eschewing Roman greed and Roman cruelty, he was unable to eschew Roman insincerity ....
Gargantua and Pantagruel - By Fran
...Turn out of their Courses, and eschew them, named Rami-step forth of their ways, and do not resemble them; mean nagrobis ....
History of Prose Fiction - By John Colin Dunlop, Henry Wilson
...Kohde -LRB- p. 398 -RRB- remarks that Xenophon of Ephesus is the first extant mmancist who has confined the scene of his narrative to Egypt, Asia Minor, and a few districts in Italia Inferior and Sicily, and is inclined to discern in this restriction to some of the best civilized provinces of the Koman Empire, a tendency to eschew the fantastic in favor of the civilian romance ....
Bonaventure - By George Washington Cable
...Here you will be waited on, by small, blue-calico-robed damsels of Methodist unsophistication and Presbyterian propriety, to excellent refreshment; only, if you know your soul 's true interest, eschew their fresh bread and insist on having yesterday 's ....
Heroines of Fiction - By William Dean Howells
...The characters may imaginably say `` methinks " and " peradventure, " and the other things dear to the characters of the historical romancer; the narrator himself may use an antiquated or unwonted phrase in which he finds color, and may eschew the short-cuts and informalities of our actual speech, without impeaching himself of literary insincerity ....
The Duke's Children - By Anthony Trollope
...During his boyhood he had not been much at Gatherum Castle, and had done his best to eschew the place since he...
White-jacket; or, the world in a man-of-war - By Herman Melville
...He made us all wear our hats at a particular angle--instructed us in the tie of our neckerchiefs; and protested against our wearing vulgar dungeree trowsers, besides giving us lessons in seamanship, and solemnly conjuring us for ever to eschew the company of any sailor we suspected of having served in a whaler ....
The Paris of the Novelists - By Arthur Bartlett Maurice
...If in the highly commendable resolution to eschew for the rest of our lives everything of late enemy origin a single exception should be made, the writer 's impulse would be to speak for those familiar red-bound books, to which several generations of Americans have gone about clinging, that bear the imprint of a publishing house of Leipsic ....
The Works of Shakespeare ... - By William Shakespeare
...What can not be eschew 'd, must be embrac 'd ....
A Guide to the Best Fiction in English - By Ernest Albert Baker
...1587 " Wherein is sette downe a catalogue of all and singular passions of love and jealousie incident to an enamored yong gentlewoman, with a notable caveat for all women to eschew deceit-full and wicked love, by an apparent example of a Neapolitan lady, her approved and long miseries ... done into English by B. Giovano del M. Temp . "...
The Maturity of James Whitcomb Riley - By Marcus Dickey
...He would do well to eschew them forevermore . "...
Our Village - By Mary Russell Mitford, Charles Edmund Brock
...In general, they are an open, spirited, good-humored race, with a proneness to embrace the pleasures and eschew the evils of their condition, a capacity for happiness, quite unmatched in man, or woman, or girl ....
Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things - By Henry Van Dyke
...His story contains a moral, ` worthy the attention of all little birds and little boys; ` warning them to keep to those refined and intellectual pursuits which raised him to so high a pitch of popularity during the early part of his career i but to eschew all tendency to that gross and dissipated indulgence, which drought this mistaken little bird to an untimely end . "...