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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Shun
 
  Shun wickedness as swallows shun pestilent places.
            —Saint Augustine		  1
  Shun him like the plague.
            —Robert Browning		  2
  Shun her like garlic.
            —Lord Byron		  3
  Shunned like a viper.
            —Mathew Carey		  4
  Shunned like base praise and hireling’s mart.
            —Aubrey De Vere		  5
  Shunn’d him as a sailor shuns the rocks.
            —John Dryden		  6
  Shun as moles shun light.
            —O. Henry		  7
  Shun him like the pest.
            —Edward Sharpham		  8
  Shun as sullen night-ravens do the sun.
            —Henry Vaughan		  9
  Shun, like a shattered bark, the storm.
            —William Wordsworth		  10
 
 
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