balking

Example Sentences

• "This supernatural world is the world of fulfilled desire, the world where the balkings, the trials and tribulations, the sorrows and the sins are no more, and where life is as the personality would have it […]"
• "For these, the ground chosen was especially hard and slippery, and in bad condition; and to add to this, the wind, which blew the lath about, was very balking to the competitors."
• "Here was a very balking answer, but in spite of it, Harold could not help believing that Esther was very far from objecting to the sort of incense he had been offering just then."
• "No Form was more balking and unfit for achievement of the genuine Drama , however , than the Opera-form with its once-for-all division into vocal num bers , quite heedless of the dramatic matter: however much our opera-composers might toil and moil to stretch them out and multiply them, the unyielding, disconnected botch-work could only fall to rags and tatters in the long run, —as we have seen in its own place."
• "On the shooter calling, "Pull," the trap would sometimes be pulled at once; at other times after a pause; nothing is more balking to a shooter and likely to make him miss than the latter."
• ""Exactly. It is tiresome and very balking to have to leave one's business , " said the deacon , who could sympathize with the ready-made clothier's supposititious feelings ."