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But, from her babyhood on, Laura and Pin with her had lamented the fact that children could not go about clad in sacks, mercifully indistinguishable one from another. For they were the daughters of an imaginative mother, and, balked in other outlets, this imagination had wreaked itself on their clothing.
Not a hand was raised in Vandersee's vital peril. Then the utter confidence of the man was revealed. With his stumble Vandersee drew back from his antagonist three feet, and Leyden plunged forward, tripped by his own balked impetus.
The French Navy did not again lift up its head during the three years of war that remained. Balked in their expectation that the foe's fear of the beach would give them refuge, harried and worried by the chase, harnessed to no fixed plan of action, Conflans's fleet broke apart and fled. Seven went north, and ran ashore at the mouth of the little river Vilaine which empties into Quiberon Bay.
Angela closed her eyes, dropped her head on her mother's shoulder; the tears started from under her eyelids. "Shall Angela fly?" Julia asked. "Remember this is your last chance." "No," Ralph said. And the word was the growl of a balked beast. "Then," Julia said sternly, "we will leave Angel Island forever." "You will," Ralph sneered. "You will, will you? All right. Let's see you do it!"
Somehow he felt sure that Nate, balked of the great gains he had promised himself, would wreak his disappointment wherever he might; and since the land was of so little value, he would not continue to deny himself his revenge for fear that an investigation into the priority of the mineral's discovery might invalidate the entry.
There's no use crowding them, for that only excites them, and if you ever start them milling, the jig's up. They're nice, gentle cattle, but they've been balked once and they haven't forgotten it."
So that the Irish youth could still, with some precautionary prudence, find teachers of the Greek and Latin languages, of mathematics, history, and geography. In Munster particularly schools and academies of literature flourished; the ardor of the people for the acquirement of knowledge could not be balked by such paltry obstacles as the laws of William III.
But De Charnise would not be balked by a woman; he attacked again; and this time, one of the garrison, a Swiss, betrayed the fort, and let the invaders into the walls by an unguarded entrance. It was Easter morning when this misfortune occurred, but the peaceful influence of the day did not avail.
It seemed that while hauling that day one of his horses had balked, and in his anger he had lifted one foot to kick it, but missed it, lost his balance, and fell. He arose from the fall somewhat ashamed, and remarked, "It's best to be moderate." This incident had amused the others very much, and any allusion to it caused laughter.
I can't imagine anything more ghastly than for a man to be hanging around among his old friends, waiting for a for a" he balked at the word "for a trial," he said at last, "that can have only one ending. No! I'm ready to ride away when they call for me but they won't find me pining for freedom." "Can't anything be done?" "Not for me, Rodney.
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