Choiseul, balked of his main object, still clung to the invasion of Scotland.
The union of the two kingdoms under one family promised important advantages to France, henceforth delivered from that old enemy in the rear, which had balked so many of her efforts to extend her frontiers eastward.
The pride and fear which had balked the thought of self-destruction now served to fan the flame of fresh resolve.
It need scarcely be added that I, who had balked at the far more substantial bridges at Dromahair and Dunluce, never for an instant thought of crossing this one.
On Christmas eve he would put an end to these torturing taunts, his soul should not be balked longer of its rightful food.
But the bloodthirsty mob would not be balked of its prey.
Each way seemed easy till she followed it and found herself balked by a hedge.
It is a diagnostic symptom, a symptom of what Graham Wallas calls "balked disposition.
This is an invariable rule with balked horses, just as much as it is for them to look around at their sides when they have the bots; in either case they are deserving of the same sympathy and the same kind, rational treatment.
You always see horses that have been balked a few times, turn their heads and look back, as soon as they are a little frustrated.
He was too great a leader, in the Indian way, to be balked by one defeat.
He was a hot-headed man, he hated Indians--but he balked at shooting women and children.
It is too much to be balkedby so petty an obstacle, when all else had been overcome.
You recollect how annoyed I was at being balked by so small a thing?
Was she, the child of gods, to be balked at every turn, when love cried out and Menon battled with his fate alone?
He snarled shrilly through the little square hole in the cover, while his assailant, balked of her prey and furious with the smart of her wound, pounced once more upon the basket and strove to claw an entrance.
He had come to explore the summit of Bald Face, and he was not going to be balked by a flock of birds.
A look of diffidence crossed Bimble's face as he noticed that the Phantom had once more balked him.
And the Phantom, of course, balked at the idea of paying good money for his own property.
More than thrice have I been balked of my just revenge, but now will I secure it.
His timidity balkedat facing a moment which might call upon him to take a courageous stand or one fronting possible reprisals.
Now he was seeing her under the most inauspicious circumstances--and he knew that only want of opportunity and the uncompromising plane on which she had pitched her dealings in managerial offices had balked her ambitions.
Balked in this attempt by the advance of the Athenian guards from Mitylene, and repulsed a second time in a battle outside the city, they then crossed the mountain and effected the revolt of Eresus.
Miss Roanoke was able to ride at a stone wall or at a river, and to ride at either the second time when her horse balked the first.
There was that still in the Makimmon blood which balked at measuring ribbands, selling calico to captious women.
His balked feelings overmastered him, and he disregarded her prohibition.
He led her reluctantly to the ill-fated balcony, but at the divan she balked and drew back.
So she had said that night when they sat close together and their souls sought the high empyrean of dreams--and now he was balked by a woman.
But only a little; there was something about her that balked him a thousand times.
Just at the very moment when she was preparing to be gracious and give him his precious mine back he had balked like a mule and without sense or reason stormed off on his way to Old Mexico.
She had determined that the young soldier should not be balked in so modest a hope as that of seeing and being seen by the girl he loved.
You have balked me once and again,' he rejoined, in a voice which shook a little, as did the fingers with which he stroked his waxed moustache.
This balked his companions, who drew back; but unfortunately it was necessary for me to stoop to get my sword, which was hidden in the faggot I had carried.
A balked and angered woman was Mrs. Frazier at the captain's politely veiled refusal to come and be nursed and captured under her roof.
But the real religious leader who loves boys will not be balked by the pettiness and inability of denominationalism.
But at last he was balked because of lack of a particular part which he knew to be essential, but as to the nature of which he was not informed.
That home-mending told her that the enemy who had balked her in the last poor comfort of vengeance was Sim Squires, a member of her own household, and her lips moved in their impulse to call out his name in denunciation and revilement.
