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Updated: June 12, 2025
'Where does your governor live, little 'un? "'On the Quai du Canal-Saint-Martin, sir, answered he, in a voice trembling with joy. "'Very good, said the young man, 'I will help you take home the horse, who will go well enough with me, and I will tell the master that the delay was no fault of your'n. A balky horse ought not to be trusted to a child of your age.
Midway of the rock-slide of the trough, they stopped, and like balky mules, refused to go forward or turn back. In vain I urged them to start down, assuring them the lower altitude would bring relief. The sick men didn't care what happened; they craved instant relief by death or any other instantaneous method, as seasick persons always do.
Nothing but a good-sized church would hold 'em all. Which was where Bruce Mackey, usually a mild sort of party and kind of retirin', had come forward with the balky behavior. "What do you think?" says Mrs. Bruce. "He says he won't go near the church." "Eh?" demands Mr. Robert, turnin' to him. "What do you mean by that, Bruce?" Mr. Mackey shakes his head stubborn.
'Where does your governor live, little 'un? "'On the Quai du Canal-Saint-Martin, sir, answered he, in a voice trembling with joy. "'Very good, said the young man, 'I will help you take home the horse, who will go well enough with me, and I will tell the master that the delay was no fault of your'n. A balky horse ought not to be trusted to a child of your age.
This was exceedingly useful to Lee and when he discovered that McClellan and Pope were pulling at different directions like balky circus horses, while Halleck with one foot on each was in imminent peril of a fall, he determined to take advantage of the situation and hasten the disaster.
Opdyke, little as you may believe it, physical disease has no real existence." "Indeed?" Reed queried politely, quite as if the question had no personal significance for him. "Not at all. It only shows the inherent weakness of the one who believes himself an invalid." This time, Reed felt himself suddenly turning balky. "Oh, I say!" he protested.
He had another woesome account of a sloop-of-war in which he had gone through the Straits of Magellan. The difficult navigation and balky winds made the passage protracted for a sailing-vessel; all were put on short rations, and the day before she entered a Chilian port the bread-room was swept to the last crumbs. "I often could not sleep for hunger when I turned in."
He lives in the patchwork shanty on the beach down there, he is deaf and dumb, drives a liver-colored, balky mare that no one but himself and his daughter Becky can handle, and he has a love for bad rum and a temper that's landed him in the Wellmouth lock-up more than once or twice.
"Nothing much, probably," said Trenwith "Bates will have it fixed in a few minutes. The best engine in the world is apt to get balky at times and I must say that mine has chosen a very good time to misbehave."
I have seen others who made much noise in meeting and talked a great deal outside about their religion and their doings, but who, when it came time for them to make some sacrifice for the cause or to do some work that required consecration on their part, were ready to balk at once and throw the responsibility on others who were not balky.
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