The century that has witnessed the triumph of the scientific doctrine of the convertibility of natural energies ought not to balk at the lesser miracle of social equivalences and substitutes.
But if they balk at leaving the money let them bring it along.
The suggestion that I would be a party to robbing Mr. Harris of twenty thousand dollars, and so balk a transaction in which I stood to make a profit of more than twice that amount, is too ridiculous for discussion.
This did not, however, balk their energies, and by resorting to all kinds of shifts and devices they made many useful expeditions.
So close it seems and only the weather to balk us.
Hepsy was inclined to balk when she found she was wanted to drive down to Freedom; but Mrs. Vernon was most emphatic with a persuasive hickory stick, so that Hepsy decided that "discretion was the better part of stubbornness.
Irritated by this supposition, she resolved to balk his triumph with affected indifference, and in the mean time endeavoured to expel him from that place which he possessed within her heart.
The next obstacle to be surmounted was a huge balk of timber raised at the ends, about a foot off the ground, under which the coursers were compelled to crawl.
Had not Haynes grasped his comrade by the shoulders Webb would have dropped inertly from the balk of timber into the sea.
Then, clambering on the nearest balkof timber, he threw the insulated material over one of the wires and forced it against the next cable.
What was the attitude of those two toward Larry, when he was trying to balk them by making you give up the plan?
At the very moment when she would have seized her prey, the hare moved and darted along the balk between the winter rye and the stubble.
Again Erza and Milka were abreast, running like a pair of carriage horses, and began to overtake the hare, but it was easier for the hare to run on the balk and the borzois did not overtake him so quickly.
The thorny ground is sure to balk All hopes of harvest there; We find a tall and sickly stalk, But not the fruitful ear.
O sweet retirement, who would balk the thought That could afford retirement, or could not?
No present health can health ensure For yet an hour to come; No medicine, though it oft can cure, Can always balk the tomb.
He ain't r'ally used ter w'ite folks, an' he jes seem ter natchelly balkat de idea fum de fus.
Hardy Atkins, as a beautiful, dappled black made a balk to leap over the gate.
A Frenchman must have his revolution--it is his nature to knock down omnibuses in the street, and across them to fire at troops of the line--it is a sin to balk it.
Queer thing, I thought of it In the cage when that balk went by.
As I smoked I heard the game begin again--with a miss in balk this time, for the whir was a short one.
But the excited Carolinians would not wait, because they feared that the arrival of reinforcements might balk them of their easy prey.
But the pitch to which the dismal sights and sounds I have mentioned, and a hundred like them, had raised the fears of my following did much to balk my endeavours.
Rule 32, Section I, defines a balk as "Any motion made by the pitcher to deliver the ball to the bat without delivering it.
It's no good for us to be laying plans if you are going to be weak-kneed at the end and balk at carrying them out.
But hang it all--why do you want tobalk and torment me so?
On the beach lay a balk of timber which they sometimes used to tie the dinghy to.
A minute later Frank was in the water pushing the balk of timber before him and heading, as nearly as he knew how, for the spot where the hulk and the motor boat had been moored.
If they could cheat her, balk her designs, steal a march in any way, they did so, from first to last, always excepting the few who were faithful to her.
Or in the other case did her inspiration fail her, or were the intrigues of Charles and his Court sufficient to balk the designs of Heaven?
I would not balk the impatience of her passion for the world--the least appearance of coldness or indifference would ruin all; and such offers don't occur every day.
I did n't know there was a man in Europe could have made that horse balk his fence.
The gallant Captain did not balk my good intentions.
A man like him will balk at nothing to gain his point.
You see, here in this small place we haven't the facilities, the surgical skill, the equipment for such a critical operation, and the truth is we all of us here balkat it.
