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"Shirker" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... for past offences. A Scene sketched from the Life. Horace Eglantine is proposing "the Study of the Fathers," a favourite College toast, while Tom Echo is enforcing Obedience to the President's proposition by finishing off a Shirker. Dick Gradus having been declared absent, is taking a cool nap with the Ice-pail in his arms and his head resting upon a Greek Lexicon: in the left hand corner may be seen a Scout bearing off a dead Man, (but not without hope of Resurrection). Bob Transit and Bernard Blackmantle ...
— The English Spy • Bernard Blackmantle
... nothing to distract our attention from the beauty of the spot. I suppose it to be the most imposing river-entrance on the south coast; perhaps the most imposing on any of the coasts of Britain. But being lazy and by habit a shirker of word-painting, I must have recourse to the description given in Mr. Arthur Underhill's Our Silver Streak, most useful and pleasant of handbooks for ...
— From a Cornish Window - A New Edition • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch |
Words linked to "Shirker" : layabout, skulker, malingerer, military machine, armed services, goldbrick, armed forces, scrimshanker, shammer, military, war machine, do-nothing, shirk, idler, bum, loafer |
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