1 But next morning I perceived clearly enough that my curiosity regarding the Palace of Green Porcelain was a piece of self-deception, to enable me to shirk, by another day, an experience I dreaded.
2 "Yes, looking at the sky, I thought that the dome that I see is not a deception, and then I thought something, I shirked facing something," he mused.
3 Just as he was going into the nursery he remembered what it was he had shirked facing.
4 And whenever she found Carreen on her knees when she should have been taking an afternoon nap or doing the mending, she felt that Carreen was shirking her share of the burdens.
5 I don't know what else to tell yeh, Henry, excepting that yeh must never do no shirking, child, on my account.
6 He did his work in the same slow obstinate way as he had done it in Jones's time, never shirking and never volunteering for extra work either.
7 You have always some excuse or another for shirking work.
8 It is probably some unpleasantness and some purple of this sort which the first man is desirous of shirking.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—THE "SPUN" MAN 9 And on both these days I had the restless feeling of one who shirks an inevitable duty.