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"What was the attitude of those two toward Larry, when he was trying to balk them by making you give up the plan?" "They hated him. They are the cause especially Barney of all of Larry's trouble with the police and with the old crowd he's quit. To try to clear Larry, that's the most important thing I'm going to try to do." "And that's where you've got to let me help you!"
You'd have to drop everything and take me." Her father gently pinched her cheek. "I would, eh? Well, maybe I'll have to go out there anyway. But do you realize what Crawling Water is like, a rough, frontier town?" "I wouldn't mind that for a while." "No, I suppose not. You've got too much of your old dad in you to balk at a few difficulties.
Not one of Slade's men would balk at doing it knowingly; each would do anything to advance his interests as long as he drew his pay from Slade. "I doubt if there's a dozen men within two hundred miles that haven't lifted a few calves now and then for the brand they were riding for. That's the way it goes.
"If that is true," said Clerambault, "and I really have followers, something I did not know before, this is not the moment to keep out of the way; if they want to make an example of me, I cannot balk them." This was said in so pleasant a way, that they asked themselves if he really understood. "You are taking a terrible risk," persisted Gillot.
Who, for instance, sahib, is to balk Kirby sahib when he grows suspicious and begins to search in earnest for his Ranjoor Singh? He knew that Ranjoor Singh was at the House-of-the-Eight-Half-brothers; there was a man on watch outside. He will come here next, for Ranjoor Singh has been reported to him as having talked with Germans in my house." "Reported by whom?" "By the Afridi who is now dead."
Her manner was boyish, hoydenish at times, and although convent-trained, she was inclined to balk at restraint in any form. But there was a softness lurking in her blue eyes that was most sympathetic and human. St. Timothy's and the convent school in Germantown had been the choice of her parents for her education what they called a good Catholic education.
I was a backward boy, and this saved me from some deadfalls, I guess; and I had the Dutch hard mouth and a tendency to feel my ground and see how the land lay, which made me take so long to balk at any new vice or virtue that the impulse or temptation was sometimes past before I could get ready to embrace it.
It's at a political meetin' an' everything, so far as we're concerned at least, depends on the impression we-all makes. If we goes to a balk or a break-down, the "Sni-a-bar Silver Cornet Band's" got to go back an' play in the woods. "'It's not needed that I tells you gents, how we-all is on aige.
Passing from thence, we come to a certain city named Batach, Balach, or Balk, which was formerly large and famous, having sumptuous marble palaces, but is now overthrown by the Tartars. In this city it is reported that Alexander married the daughter of Darius.
Instead of snapping back Blue Jeans' curly head sank a little lower. Though his inward start at the query had been great his outward display of emotion was scarcely visible. For perceiving that this was a deliberate attempt to arouse his interest, he dissembled it and exhibited no interest at all. "I balk at murder," he replied with careful indifference and no flicker of jocularity.
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