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flinch
flense

She flinched at the sound of my voice, then turned.

She flinched as if he'd tried to put a hand on her.

He tried to flinch away from me, but could not.

You flinch away from doing what has to be done.

He seemed to flinch just a little bit every time I moved.

She flinched at the name, but he made himself go on.

The woman flinched once, then looked hard at the face.

He could not have flinched more if she'd actually hit him.

Bush flinched to life and the words were out before he thought them.

My eyes were in the light from the house now, but he never flinched.

Today was not a day for flinching on any side.

I put my hand out to him but he flinches.

She flinched at his approach but did not back away.

She saw it in his eyes, and did not flinch.

I flinched and then saw it was well over my head.

Half the men in the room flinched at that last word.

It took a lot to meet his eyes and not to flinch.

I flinched from it a bit and then knew why.

He took her hand, across the table, and she flinched.

Few people could look someone in the eyes this long and never flinch.

It took a great deal for me not to flinch away from him.

Try to break it open, she thought, and flinched inside.

She flinched, then forced herself to look at the light.

She flinched away from him as if he had raised his hand.

She flinched in response to his movement and looked at him.

To flense the mind of that which dismays us.

"Flense it open and the wretch might still be living," Ogg replied.

He wanted something astringent to cleanse him, to flense the bruise marks, to clean out his flesh.

That had been Flenser's greatest gamble: to flense an entire nation-state.

There was that little laser, the one she used to flense away samples from Captain Brannigan.

A single blow from that would flense a man's entire face, Vyotsky knew, or crush his skull like an eggshell.

It took that long for the barrage of flechettes to flense the carapace off him and slash his insides to pulp.

She had attempted to flense her vocabulary and her thoughts of the inflammatory but empty rhetoric she had used so casually during the antiwar years.

Once they bagged a whale or two, they towed their catch farther out to sea, beyond the 230-mile mark, where big factory ships waited to flense the carcasses.

In the early 20th century, the Sabellum Trading Company established a post at Kivitoo to service the whalers who would anchor there to flense carcasses.

"We flense it with our knives, peel a sheet off about the size of a blanket, take it back, cut it up ... let it dry in sheds.

The whale was harpooned and lanced to death and either towed to the stern of the ship or to the shore at low tide, where men with long knives would flense (cut up) the blubber.

Shef heard them roar with laughter, saw another group on the shore already starting to flense the blubber from a dying whale, cramming handfuls into their mouths, and shouting with manic glee.

The island is uninhabited, but has been used by whalers to flense their catches to the current day, although this practice is now limited both by season and by law to conserve the whale population as an endangered species.

Sitting on the feeder ramp, which is scarred and gouged by knives used to flense whale blubber, he muses not only on the human condition but on the contrast between his almost hallucinatory view of this sad place and his companion's practical view.

Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1954 for the Tioga, owned by Messrs. Christensen and Co. (Corral, Chile), which was one of the first floating factories to flense whales at sea.