Finally, the First Consul charged Savary, who had just returned to Paris from Biville, furious at being baulked of his prey, to proceed to Vincennes with a band of his gendarmes for the carrying out of the sentence.
Blücher, baulked of his wish to shoot Bonaparte, was with difficulty dissuaded by the protests of Wellington and Louis XVIII.
He felt he could not halt or eat or sleep till he had taken vengeance on the man who had so persistently baulked him; he would denounce him as a spy, as a traitor .
But the full indulgence in this luxury was baulked by the announcement of her cousin Maud Brentham.
Many indeed have been baulked in planting and husbandry there; but such have been chiefly Londoners, who are Strangers to Country Business.
I am embittered because an intense desire to love has in many instances[3] been baulked by my own idealising yet also analytical mind.
My ill-health, my isolation, baulked ambitions, and daily breadwinning all conspire to bring me down.
Outside we heard the cries and screams of the Frenchmen, baulked of their prey; for (probably fortunately for themselves) they did not discover the narrow and hidden entrance to our cave.
Whether Enoch Lale heard this gentle protest, or whether he was resolved not to bebaulked of his story, I cannot say.
This is an invariable rule with baulked horses, just as much as it is for them to look around at their sides when they have the bots.
You always see horses that have been baulked a few times turn their heads and look back as soon as they are a little frustrated.
I can't bear to see him baulked of a wish, or disappointed in a hope.
In another moment my legs must have been off, had not one of the officers of the ship thrown out a rope, which I clutched eagerly, and being speedily hauled on deck, the monster was baulked of its prey.
Was I to be baulked of my true avocation because I was told that my interest lay elsewhere?
Carried away by his exultation at the triumph of his aim and his revenge upon the foeman who had baulked him of his prey, the champion of a primeval race lingered ere he turned to flight in the direction of his companions.
Cornstalk baulked again, and this time with sufficient determination to lose him half a mile.
Bob said when he baulked behind the hill he could have killed him.
Again and again they are baulked in their efforts to reach the ill-starred vessel.
But, unfortunately, the governor's good intentions were baulked by the larger part of them becoming wreckers.
I will have the child, and yet not be baulked of my revenge.
As he had gone so far, he certainly was not going to be baulked now, he thought.
He was not going to be baulked this time, and his military experience had taught him that a determined assault was the best way of securing an enemy's capitulation.
Marjorie, better informed than Roy, mused upon the diabolical trick of fate which had caused a man to be baulked of the only thing that really matters by two successive generations--first by the father, then by the son.
Uncle Fred, who had meant to improve the occasion, baulked at his first fence.
The suggestion had obviously struck him as reasonable, but he baulked at any debate on it.
It happens only too often that the uplifter of the public mind is baulked by a disinclination on the part of the public mind to meet him or her half-way.
I think we may sit down to supper, without fear of being again baulked of our mate and mutton.
Notwithstanding all this, Gaspar the gaucho is not to be baulked in his design.
Baulked in every attempt Alaric camped panic-stricken on a single hill.
The young courtier thus baulked in obtaining the name of his protector, remained for a moment without making rejoinder.
The spectators at first thought it was some fault of the animal; that he had baulked at some obstacle, and become restive.
She had faced everything, been through everything, she had gone down into the Hades where so many of us were still living, and now she found herself baulked and menaced by commonplace daylight.
Judge whether I be of a temper to be baulked of my reward.
She then tossed it away, and walked angrily up and down, fretting between baulked curiosity and irritated pride.
Our enemies, who had been so narrowly baulked of their expected prey, followed us to the top of a rise, well within range of the guns, but disappeared immediately a few sighting shots were fired at them.
Baulked of their prey the brutes then returned and assassinated a dozen poor Makalaka Kafirs with whom we had encamped.
Then the defenders demanded a parley, but the assailants, angry at being so long baulked of their prey, insisted upon unconditional surrender.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "baulked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
