It makes use in its communications to us of those very physical infirmities that mystics assume it shuns, those residing in the body as a medium.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
Nothing better illustrates the harm which may result from the theory that shuns a purpose in art, than the neglect it brings about for books with an unpopular message.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
"You scarcely ever see him here now; he doesn't play, and shuns the bottle as if it were poison, and he's altogether changed.
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice