| 1. | I dare not shirk any part of myself. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | The minute after a step traversed the hall the open house was too tempting for Heathcliff to resist walking in most likely he supposed that I was inclined to shirk my promise, and so resolved to trust to his own audacity. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 3. | He came between him and the shirks he should have punished. - from The Call of the Wild by Jack London |
| 4. | There isn't a kinder soul in Avonlea and she never shirks her share of work.. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 5. | And on both these days I had the restless feeling of one who shirks an inevitable duty. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |