Whatever may be said henceforward of these "golden lads" of ours, "shirker" and "loafer" they can never he called again. From Wordnik.com. [The War on All Fronts: England's Effort Letters to an American Friend] Reference
Whatever may be said henceforward of these "golden lads" of ours, "shirker" and "loafer" they can never be called again. From Wordnik.com. [England's Effort: Letters to an American Friend] Reference
"He did; and he always said that Michael Pendean was a 'shirker' and. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Redmaynes] Reference
And pay your taxes, you leftwing unpatriotic shirker. From Wordnik.com. [Is Rush Limbaugh really that hard to understand?] Reference
You may not like him, but he's no shirker and no fool. From Wordnik.com. [The Rebel Worlds]
I was a weakling, a coward, a shirker, a good-for-nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Tell Them, Please Tell Them] Reference
Skeptics called the illness 'yuppie flu' and 'shirker syndrome.'. From Wordnik.com. [Speedlinking 7/18/07] Reference
No. This list will be put up so we can find out who is a shirker. From Wordnik.com. [ADDRESSES SANTIAGO POWER WORKERS] Reference
You do not want the honest worker lumped with the shirker, do you. From Wordnik.com. [ADDRESSES SANTIAGO POWER WORKERS] Reference
Southard had already deserted the regiment once; he was a shirker. From Wordnik.com. [The Guns Of The South]
I suppose the scar down my spine convinced them I was not a shirker. From Wordnik.com. [The Emerald Triangle]
The labor involved in such work was very great, but Washington was no shirker. From Wordnik.com. [George Washington: Farmer] Reference
Every desk shirker back on the streets - no that would be a mission statement …. From Wordnik.com. [Working For A Nuclear Free City « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
If Ras Tschubai was prepared to risk his luck he didn't want to act like a shirker. From Wordnik.com. [Phantom Fleet]
He is no shirker; instead, he acknowledges and names the struggle for conscious growth. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Susan Corso: Steve Pavlina: Personal Development for Smart People] Reference
But Mr. Fitzgerald, no shirker when given a chance to indict, held back for good reason. From Wordnik.com. [A Test for Mr. Mukasey] Reference
But the inner voice that had called him bestial now called him shirker, coward, and slacker. From Wordnik.com. [The Lani People] Reference
Which lends itself to Cadwalladr capitalizing on 'battle-shirker' how Viking that sounds! to stage a coup. From Wordnik.com. [Cadafael, King of Gwynedd] Reference
He didn't actually call me a shirker but asked why the chosen people were so reluctant to get into uniform. From Wordnik.com. [between silk and cyanide]
But here was Fish turning out to do more and more of the leading while Tully eased into Smeds's old place as shirker and complainer. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Spike]
There is nothing that comes to the idler, or shirker. From Wordnik.com. [A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga] Reference
As a matter of fact, he himself was the worst shirker in the artel. From Wordnik.com. [Through Russia] Reference
The more he explained the more he would seem to them to be a shirker. From Wordnik.com. [The Tree of Heaven] Reference
"Say that, when enlisted in a noble cause, I am a miserable shirker.". From Wordnik.com. [The House of Torchy] Reference
He poses as a most industrious young man, but is, at heart, a shirker. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of Peter Grimm] Reference
Now, if she was a whiner and/or a shirker that's a different situation. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Campus] Reference
Nor was there a shirker among the men -- and all because the leader was Forrest. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Union Scout] Reference
Will it satisfy you if I own that I am a shirker, a skrim-shanker, and a coward?. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Gadsbys] Reference
All unknowingly he made me realize that I had been a bit of a coward and a shirker. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922] Reference
I tell you what, you old shirker, it's up to you to come home and bear your own Aunt. From Wordnik.com. [The Window-Gazer] Reference
Wretched shirker that I am, whom even Robert's charity despairs of: have I made a friend?. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
Nothing is more vital to a worker than rest -- yet nothing is so vitiating to the shirker. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Public Speaking] Reference
"In short, your charge is that I am a shirker -- and, since it's the same thing, a coward?". From Wordnik.com. [The Call of the Cumberlands] Reference
You know I'm not much of a shirker, I haven't a lazy bone in my body where work's concerned. From Wordnik.com. [Germinie Lacerteux] Reference
He seemed to have believed -- Newton had seemed -- that that shirker, as he called him, never. From Wordnik.com. [The Finer Grain] Reference
In their eyes an artist was a shirker who contrived to work as little and as agreeably as possible. From Wordnik.com. [Jean-Christophe Journey's End] Reference
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