He's a nice, upright fellow, and he will never shirk a duty.

Yet I am not one to neglect or shirk a duty.

I've no wish to shirk a duty to my family.

I am not one of those who shirk a duty, whatever the peril be in accomplishing it.

It is cowardly to shirk a duty.

And Kennicott O'Neill was no man to shirk a duty, let John Whitaker say what he chose.

Duke Namon, who was never known to shirk a duty, offered to go; but the king would not consent.

He had suddenly become aware that he had an unpleasant duty to perform, and to shirk a duty was a thing impossible to him.

Now and again in my experience some woman has shirked a duty.

I ought to have fetched you away sooner, only I shirked a duty.

He never shirks a duty and never forgets a kindness.

He would remain in the saddle from dawn to twilight, if necessary, and never shirked a duty.

They took part in eleven hard-fought battles, besides many skirmishes, and not a man flinched or shirked a duty!

The almost-human slaves were asleep, even the sentinels shirking a duty which in this realm must have seemed to them merely perfunctory.

"Sylvia would never shirk a duty," George declared firmly.

I think I may say that I have never yet shirked a duty, distasteful though it might be, and I must not do so now.