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Updated: June 13, 2025
He was seized then with an uncomfortable feeling that the words were mere puerile blustering and turned away from the bar in disgust. In disgust he pulled open the door, flinched before the blast of wind and snow which smote him full in the face and blinded him, and went out again into the storm.
He flinched when came an ear-splitting crash that once again lifted the black curtain and showed him, white-lighted, the plain. In the dark that followed came a rhythmic thud of hoofs far up the creek, and the rattle of living castanets. Sunfish threw up his head and listened, muscles a-quiver. "There's a bunch a-running," called Bob from across the frightened herd.
A second later the ranks were closed again, and, like a dark tide, on flowed their advance. "We asked ourselves, 'What chance have our thin ranks against those four distinct, heavy battle lines advancing to assault us? We had but two ranks of men, they eight. But not a man in our regiment flinched. When the enemy reached the foot of the hill our cannon could not be so depressed as to harm them.
"They're laggin'. Better give 'em somethin' to try an' bite on!" He brought his bay to a complete stop and aimed. When his carbine barked, a horse neighed and went down. Then Kirby flinched, his weapon fell from his hand, and he caught quickly at the horn of his saddle. From the foremost of the blue riders there was a wild yell of exultation.
Savage snaps of speech in the Council did harm; imprisonments followed, then some unaccountable sudden deaths. High and low alike, none knew where the blow might fall, but all flinched at it. In these distresses Molly served him well, for she at least was universally loved. If the Duke had a man stabbed, the Duchess took such sweet consolation to the widow that none could murmur long.
When he appeared, Blodgett had him by the arm to help him. "You sojering, bloody fool," Kipping cried; "do you think I'm so blind I can't see through such tricks as yours?" A murmur of remonstrance came from the men, but Kipping paid no attention to it. "You think, do you, that I ain't on to your slick tricks? Take that." Bill never flinched. "So!" Kipping muttered. "So! Bring him aft."
She thought of the hours, the long hours, that she and Johnny Byrd had been alone and she flinched, shivering under the whiplash of fear. What were they saying of her, those others? What were they thinking? She knew how unwarrantable, how inexcusable a thing she had done. It had begun with deliberate loitering.
The counterman didn't even glance up as he entered. Feldman gazed at the printed menu and flinched. "Soup," he ordered. It was the cheapest item he could find. The counterman stared at him, obviously spotting his Earth origin. "You adjusted to synthetics?" Feldman nodded. Earth operated on a mixed diet, with synthetics for all who couldn't afford the natural foods there.
But confronted with serious obstacles, he flinched from his task, and therein, to my thinking, lay his weakness.
The sailor, an impetuous being, tanned by the open air, accustomed to dewy nights and burning days, with closed lips, hasty gestures, orange eyes, ravenous as those of a vulture, and black, frizzled hair, was the embodiment of an adventurer who risks all in a venture, as a gambler stakes all on a card. His whole appearance revealed terrific passions, and an audacity that flinched at nothing.
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