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Updated: June 14, 2025
I don't want Capi to become a thief any more than I want to be one myself, and if I thought that I ever should become a thief, I'd drown myself at once with my dog." My father looked me full in the face. I thought he was going to strike me. His eyes gleamed. I did not flinch.
At length all random shots ceased, and the champions before named stood gallantly up to each other, resolving not to flinch from a trial of their respective strengths. A thousand guineas were bid by Earl Spencer to which the Marquess added ten. You might have heard a pin drop.
At the mountain locandas, we were always prepared, not to say resigned, to encounter those various distresses which seem light evils at a distance knowing that we could not starve as long as eggs and maccaroni were to be found, and even as to lodging we were too old travellers to flinch at trifles.
It is one of those occasions when, though surrounded by a goodly company of friends, she yet finds opportunity for an individual act of heroism. They are but a few words she utters but match them if you can! We do not flinch, we Amazonian warriors. It is a-propos of Lord Byron that she takes occasion to point a shaft, or rather to throw her battle-axe, at the head of this flagrant impostor.
And he would have spoken of the hopes of his future. "No, no; tell me tell me what you see in my eyes," said Winsome, a little impatiently. "Well then, first," said truthful Ralph, who certainly did not flinch from the task, "I see the fairest thing God made for man to see. All the beauty of the world, losing its way, stumbled, and was drowned in the eyes of my love.
As "the Beau" counted, "One two three" Edgar gently inflated his lungs, expanding his chest to its fullest extent, and then, at the moment of receiving the blow, exhaled the air. He did not stagger or flinch, though his antagonist struck straight from the shoulder, with a brawny, small fist. The rest of the boys, in turn, struck him each time counting three with the same result.
"You are to understand that such is the case, sir." "And this is final, Mr. Thornton?" "Quite final, I assure you," said the Vicar; "nothing on earth should make me flinch from my decision." "This is very unfortunate, sir," said George. "For I had reason to believe that you rather encouraged my visits than otherwise." "I never encouraged them. It is true I permitted them.
In her own way she begins with earnest self-accusations, and proceeds to comfort the weakness of the man who should have been her guide with tender and subtly-reasoned assurances of her unchanged affection. At the same time she does not flinch from uncondoning, scathing statement of his sin and of her disillusion.
Do not open your minds to the filtering of the fallacious doctrine that it is less infamous to murder men for their politics than for their religion or their money, or that the courage to execute the deed is worse than the cowardice to excuse it. Let us not flinch from condemning without respite or remission, not only Marat and Carrier, but also Barnave.
He was now working out all the theory of the new life in a mind that would not flinch before, or shirk the gleams of truth struck from, sharp contact of fact with fact as the days and hours knocked them together. For this reason it could not be that his path would remain that plain path in which a man could run seeing far before him.
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