blench

Never will I blench from peril though in it lies my death."

The gods themselves blench at the fate of those they take alive!"

There can be no evasion To blench from this and to stand firm by honour.

The assailants blench; They are driven from the foremost trench.

They blench at the thought of being locked in a room with 100-plus Haydn symphonies.

I blench and withdraw on this side and on that.

Yet they made every churchman there blench, and the preacher changed the subject with all haste.

Ulliam did not blench at the query, showed no shock.

He didn't blench in fright or draw back or even move to defend himself.

A fierce shriek of fury caused him to blench, glance back at the cavern.

"You do not blench," she said softly.

He sees their faces blench.

Notice I do not blench.

Could man so blench?

Why do you blench?

Ha, you blench!

I've seen splints and saddle sores that would make you blench, and you can pull the coat off some of them with your bare hands.'

Still she did not blench: maiden of the Rohirrim, child of kings, slender but as a steel-blade, fair but terrible.

Temar was fair-skinned by nature and the spring sun had yet to tint his winter pallor but I saw him blench from where I stood.

She shunned it, she avoided it, but she could occasionally feel herself blench as she caught a rash and unguarded glimpse of it.

The matter being afoot, keep your instruction And hold you ever to our special drift; Though sometimes you do blench from this to that As cause doth minister.

Yesterday the government proclaimed no turning back, but the lords representing the likes of the disability charity Scope or Macmillan Cancer Support should make them blench.

As for the prior himself, he had not the figure or the bearing to succumb to deflation like his clerk, nor the kind of complexion that could be said to blench.

"Let me behold thee then in thy bodily shape, if thou best indeed a fiend," replied the dying knight; "think not that I will blench from thee.

The most reluctant, stony-hearted shopper could not fail to smile at the sight of New York's department store Christmas windows, although they might blench at the delirium inside.