"Blench" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the map is a thrilling spectacle. With his remorseless scissors he hovers over Germany and Austria in a way that would make the two KAISERS blench. Snip! away goes Alsace-Lorraine and a slice of the Palatinate; another snip! and Galicia flutters ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 30, 1914 • Various
... on a day And fought with a mighty folk-king, and overcame at last: Then wide about his kingdom the net of steel they cast, And the prey was great and goodly that they drave unto the strand. But a greedy heart is Gudrod, and a king of griping hand, Though nought he blench from the battle; so he speaks on a morning fair, And saith: "Upon the foreshore the booty will we share If thou wilt help me, fellow, before we ...
— The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs • William Morris
... next drew nigh, Miscreant Monarch of Barbary; Yet he spake like vassal staunch and bold— Blench would he not for all God's gold. The third, Malprimis, of Brigal's breed, More fleet of foot than the fleetest steed, Before King Marsil he raised his cry, "On unto Roncesvalles I: In mine encounter shall ...
— The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga - With Introductions And Notes • Various
... then. She had not blenched since. And she never would blench. In spite of his gorgeous position and his unique reputation, in spite of her well-concealed but notorious pride in him, he still went in fear of that ageless woman, whose undaunted eye always told him that he was still the lad Denry, and her inferior in moral force. The ...
— The Regent • E. Arnold Bennett
... their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. I'll have these players Play something like the murder of my father Before mine uncle: I'll observe his looks; I'll tent him to the quick:[73] if he do blench,[74] I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and, perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy (As he is very potent with such spirits), ...
— Hamlet • William Shakespeare
... spirit to the proof, And blench not at thy chosen lot; The timid good may stand aloof, The sage may frown—yet ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 6 • Various
... The purity and whiteness of my sheets,— Which to preserve is sleep; which being spotted Is goads, thorns, nettles, tails of wasps; Give scandal to the blood o' the prince, my son,— Who I do think is mine, and love as mine,— Without ripe moving to't?—Would I do this? Could man so blench? ...
— The Winter's Tale - [Collins Edition] • William Shakespeare
... prosecution of Verres. He was firm against all that Catiline attempted for his destruction, and had courage enough for the responsibility when he thought it expedient to doom the friends of Catiline to death. In defending Milo, whether the cause were good or bad, he did not blench.[267] He joined the Republican army in Macedonia though he distrusted Pompey and his companions. When he thought that there was a hope for the Republic, he sprung at Antony with all the courage of a ...
— Life of Cicero - Volume One • Anthony Trollope
... way and room for your rash choler? Shall I be frighted when a madman stares? Go show your slaves how choleric you are! And make your bondsmen tremble! I'll not blench! ...
— Capitola's Peril - A Sequel to 'The Hidden Hand' • Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth
... as if she were a Roentgen ray. I could see she was asking herself whether this was a conspiracy, and whether I had come there on purpose to meet 'Harold.' But I flatter myself I am tolerably mistress of my own countenance. I did not blench. 'How do you know?' she asked ...
— Miss Cayley's Adventures • Grant Allen
... thing are you that seeming man must blench at a little blood? Are you yourself so innocent, you that know Tressady ...
— Martin Conisby's Vengeance • Jeffery Farnol |
