shunn'd

Now tho 'all this came from an unknown Hand, no Question but he believ'd it came from me; and by his Behaviour I concluded as much, for he always avoided my Presence, and shunn'd my Company as much as possible, almost to the Breach of common Civility, by which I fancy'd I was the

The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

Now tho 'all this came from an unknown Hand, no Question but he believ'd it came from me; and by his Behaviour I concluded as much, for he always avoided my Presence, and shunn'd my Company as much as possible, almost to the Breach of common Civility, by which I fancy'd I was the

The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

Beneath his buckler, shunn'd the threat'ning blow.

The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

To this I answer, That it does not intend to license it, only to set it in a true Light, that it may be expos'd and shunn'd.

A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698) Anonymous

Of him whom they shunn'd, in his sickness and sorrow --

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 349, Supplement to Volume 12. Various

And slipp'd aside, and shunn'd the long descending blow.

The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

He attacked him powerfully; said he wrote of love like a man who had never felt it: his love verses were college verses; and he repeated the song 'Alexis shunn'd his fellow swains [229],' &c., in so ludicrous a manner, as to make us all wonder how any one could have been pleased with such fantastical stuff.

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

That which he better might have shunn'd, if griefs

Enoch Arden & c. 1863

Scorn'd of course by the beauties, and shunn'd by the wits.

Lucile Owen Meredith 1861

O you shunn'd persons, I at least do not shun you,

Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855