Meanings of shun the light in inglês

The spirits he would fain evoke shun the light of day, it is said.

What wonder that he should shun the light of day!

A twisted, horrible thing that shall shun the light and dwell in miserable darkness.

Centipedes and millipedes generally shun the light, and hide under stones and in crevices during the day.

The love, which must shun the light of day and hide itself in obscurity, pales, and withers, and dies.

The worm of conscience alone wakes and watches with the owl; none shun the light but criminals and evil spirits.

Fearing that voice, shunning the truth as foul things shun the light, our oppressors sent their agents to silence him in death.

For five years, I lived like a criminal who would shun the light of day and avoided the company of other men.

On the contrary; those who are beginning to abandon themselves to these pleasures are timid and anxious, they shun the light and noise.

Purposes fraught with horror, that shun the light, and contemplate the pollution of innocence, are here engendered, and fostered, and reared to maturity.

That is the deepest grief which must shun the light of day, and only find vent and expression in the curtained darkness of night.

Those who act justly do not shun the light, nor do they refuse explanations when the propriety of their conduct is brought into question.

She kept her way along dark obscure streets, shunning the lighted thoroughfares.

As well might I have laid my account with shunning the light of day.

No base inclination, no unworthy passion which shunned the light, could stimulate such an enterprize.

This arm shuns the light and goes down into the dark ground, pushing aside the pebbles and earth.