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Updated: May 13, 2025
And I don't want to do that not yet." His eyes flinched. "Not yet? What does that mean?" "It means I'm content to stay, at present. Who can answer for tomorrow?" Her eyes lit up mockingly. "For instance you. Today you think you're going to be true to me don't you?
They had reached a broad break in the cottonwoods; the moonlight was falling so softly and brightly. Bull paused and looked around him. "I guess this'll have to do," he declared. "All right, son. You can be as mysterious as you want. Now what you got me here for?" "To kill you," said Bull gently. Pete Reeve flinched back. Then he tapped his holster, made sure of the gun, became more easy.
Thus they struggled on, the succeeding divisions faring worst of all. Berthier, chief of the staff, relates that a glass of water sold for its weight in gold. Even brave officers abandoned themselves to transports of rage and despair which left them completely prostrate. But Bonaparte flinched not.
Presently she gently pulled out one of the cactus spikes. The horse flinched, but he stood. Lucy was slow, careful, patient, and dexterous. The cactus needles were loose and easily removed or brushed off. At length she got him free of them, and was almost as proud as she was glad. The horse had gradually dropped his head; he was tired and his spirit was broken.
He cleans a button as carefully as he lays a big gun, and this readiness for any duty, great or small, was a large factor in the wonderful victory of Japan over Russia. In battle he questions no order. During the late war many Japanese regiments knew that they were being sent to certain death, in order that they might open a way for their comrades. They never flinched.
The boys divided the work in a business-like manner, and took turns to go down every alternate hour to feed their troublesome foster-children. Zillah, the cook, allowed the hutch to be brought into the kitchen at night, and undertook to feed the pigs at six o'clock in the morning, but until then the boys were responsible and never once flinched from what they had undertaken.
He was ready to let it ruin his whole future. He would never have flinched never have known, or admitted if he had known what he had foregone. But the thing was taken out of his control altogether the girl married another man! "When Con came to himself again, he told me, Betty told me so simply, so tragically, that I saw what a deep cut the experience had made in his life how it had humbled him.
A wonderful change lightened his face. "Diplomacy demanded a victim," he said, "and I never flinched. Two men knew the truth, and they are dead. My scheme was a bold one. If it had succeeded, it would have meant an alliance with Germany, an absolute incontrovertible alliance and an imperishable peace.
He called upon Heaven to decide between himself and the sailors. He flinched not. He offered his life as a pledge, if they would but trust and wait for three days more. He swore that, if, in the course of the third day, land was not visible on the horizon, he would yield to their wishes and steer for Europe.
He was about to do a criminal act, and though it was not his first, he flinched every time he crossed the border-line. He lifted his hand, and hesitated; then he remembered his dismissal from Kuryong, and caught sight of a dunning letter lying on his table. That decided him. The risk was worth taking. The danger was great, but the stake was worth it.
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