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Updated: June 12, 2025
"Me, sir? and with whom? the gentleman who knows so well the manner of keeping his feet in a gale?" "You were about to relieve any doubts we might have concerning the amusements of seamen," said the governess, reproving the too playful spirit of her pupil, by a glance of her own grave eye. "Ay, it was the humour of the moment, nor will I balk it."
I have known him lose his temper, call his wife and servants names, and a whole household made miserable. If, then, as is notoriously the case, it is too dangerous to balk a man about his dinner, how much more about his article? I came to my meal with an ogre-like appetite and gusto. Fee, faw, fum! Wife, where is that tender little Princekin?
"You shall not balk me," said Chiffinch; and a jingling was heard, as if he were filling his comrade's glass with a very unsteady hand. "Hey What the devil is the matter? I used to carry my glass steady very steady." "Well, but this stranger?" "Why, he swept at game and ragout as he would at spring beef or summer mutton.
"Even though I am a monkey, eh?" Dick answered. "And did you really cry when you thought I was dead?" "Yes," the girl said demurely; "I always cry when I lose my pets. There was the dearest puppy I ever had " Dick laughed quietly. "Who is the monkey now?" he asked. "I am," she said frankly; "but you know I can't help teasing you, Dick." "Don't balk yourself, Nelly, I like it.
How he had gotten out so far no one knew, unless indeed he had tried to swim to the boat. The sight of a human being struggling frantically in the water and lost to all sense of reason by panic fright is one to strike terror to a stout heart. Even the skilful swimmer whose courage is not of the stoutest may balk at the peril.
I told him that his men were working in too large gangs, as I looked at it. Where he had twenty breaking-teams following one another, if one broke his plow, or ran on a boulder and had to file it, the whole gang had to stop for him, or run around him and make a balk in the work.
But suppose a tube let down from the moon, with yourself at one end, and the man at the other; it would be some balk to the spirit of conversation, if you knew that the dialogue exchanged with that interesting theosophist would take two or three revolutions of a higher luminary in its passage.
The house is of beams, roofed with bark; the smoke from the fire on the broad stone in the hall, whirls through the air-hole, near which stands the cask of mead; the cushions lie on the bench before the closed bedsteads; deer-skins hang over the balk walls, ornamented with shields, helmets, and armour.
Her life stretched before her over a much pleasanter path than ever before. There were kind friends whom she could help in the future, as they needed help and that delighted Ruth Fielding. Her own future seemed secure. She could prepare herself for college and could gain the education she craved. It seemed that nothing could balk her ambition in that direction.
"I am the sub-prefect and I was born here." "What is the best way to balk curiosity?" "By satisfying it. For instance, Monsieur le Comte has a baptismal name; let him register that with the title of count." "Very good; Comte Maxime." "And if monsieur will assume the position of a railway official, Arcis will be content; it will amuse itself by floating that stick at least for a fortnight."
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