What is "shunned"

Usage examples of "shunned".

In ten minutes my mind was made up, and taking my hat I set out for home, where I bathed, ate, and gave by telephone an order for a pick axe, a spade, a military gas-mask, and six carboys of sulphuric acid, all to be delivered the next morning at the cellar door of the shunned house in Benefit Street.

In my childhood the shunned house was vacant, with barren, gnarled and terrible old trees, long, queerly pale grass and nightmarishly misshapen weeds in the high terraced yard where birds never lingered.

Around him in the damp, low-ceiled library with the musty white paneling, heavy carved overmantel and small-paned, vine shaded windows, were the relics and records of his ancient family, among which were many dubious allusions to the shunned house in Benefit Street.

The shunned house, it seems, was first inhabited by William Harris and his wife Rhoby Dexter, with their children, Elkanah, born in 1755, Abigail, born in 1757, William, Jr.

Neither he nor his son Archer knew of the shunned house as other than a nuisance almost impossible to rent - perhaps on account of the mustiness and sickly odour of unkempt old age.

All of this material I cannot hope to give, for my uncle was a tireless antiquarian and very deeply interested in the shunned house.

The really inexplicable thing was the way in which the victims - ignorant people, for the ill smelling and widely shunned house could now be rented to no others - would babble maledictions in French, a language they could not possibly have studied to any extent.

Maria had been at the shunned house from 1769 till the removal of the family in 1783, and had seen Mercy Dexter die.

I found what I had half expected, that where the shunned house now stood, the Roulets had laid out their graveyard behind a one-story and attic cottage, and that no record of any transfer of.

What relation it had to the French ravings of Rhoby Harris and other inhabitants of the shunned house, imagination or future discovery alone could determine.

No one spoke to him, no one acknowledged his presence, no one would assist the shunned in any way, or indicate that he — or she — existed.

Drake at first protested that they couldn’t leave any Thread on any ground, shunned or not.

In his opinion, all thread had to be destroyed, even if it fell on a shunned homesite.

In his group of weyrlings, he had almost been shunned for trying too hard, for always doing more than was necessary and showing up the others.

There was something almost pathetic about his air of aloofness, as if he knew, and even expected, to be shunned and avoided.