One of the wooden balks with which they had propped the old workings shot past on the current, just missing the cage.

But they have balked at the cost of making them full members.

He had the look of a man not used to being balked.

They had already been balked once since the start of the war.

She looked at the thing again and her mind balked.

I think George might have balked if she had not.

And when others tried to do it for him, he often balked.

It made no sense, but she balked at going outside.

They tried to get me moving again, but I balked.

I've never known her to balk at anything if the price was right.

Recently, men of crime had been balked at every turn.

A few clients balked at first, but they came around.

But when asked to identify the child in question, she balked.

And over the former I was up against a problem which also balked several other ideas.

House Democratic leaders have so far balked at that idea.

I found myself balking at the thought of getting into a car with him.

"I have not come this far only to be balked!"

She would have been out and away, but me bar balked her.

The crisis was on him even as he balked at the water.

Joe would have tried to balk, but what was the point?

If he did, there was only one person who could balk the next death.

Time and again, she had balked at selling her father's business.

But the companies balked at having to pay once that money ran out.

Some of the players balked, and asked if there was anything that would change his mind.

Nothing's mind tried to balk at the thought of all those years, but he would not let it.

Some balked, he recalled, because they thought she was too young.