A small divine instinct, following ignorantly in the wake of that great celestial love that hundreds of years ago stooped to the sorrow of life, urged her to renounce the ample strengths and joys of the sea, and to satisfy a piteous want, were it by repression of energies, by eschewing full flavours of sense, by the draining of her young life.
"The Unknown Sea"
Clemence Housman
Now your company would be so very valuable as well as agreeable to me, that I am desirous to know whether you are at all inclined to entertain the idea of devoting the month of September, after the meeting in Edinburgh, to a working tour in Ireland with me-eschewing all grandeur, and taking little account even of scenery, compared with the purpose of looking from close quarters at the institutions for religion and education of the country, and at the character of the people.
"Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2"
Robert Ornsby
It gratified me considerably to feel that, for the time being, there would be no sinful extravagance in eschewing the ready-made.
"A Top-Floor Idyl"
George van Schaick