What thing are you that seeming man must blench at a little blood?
King Karl is ever our pride and stay; Nor one of the Franks shall blench this day, But your comrades here on the field shall lie; I bring you tidings: ye all shall die.
Accursed," say the Franks, "be they who fly None shall blench from the fear to die.
LXXIV King Corsablis the next drew nigh, Miscreant Monarch of Barbary; Yet he spake like vassal staunch and bold-- Blench would he not for all God's gold.
My kinsman I to the last defend; Nor will I blenchfor mortal face,-- Far better death than such disgrace.
Patience herself, what goddess e'er she be, Doth lesser blench at suff'rance than I do.
The matter being afoot, keep your instruction And hold you ever to our special drift; Though sometimes you do blench from this to that As cause doth minister.
There can be no evasion To blench from this and to stand firm by honour.
Ivanhoe; "does heblench from the helm when the wind blows highest?
Thou hast seen me when the ship's keel lay grating on the rock, and the billows flew in foam over her deck--did I blench then?
Ile obserue his lookes, Ile rent him to the quicke: If he but blench I know my course.
Dost thou think that I who have seen a town sacked, in which thousands perished by sword, by flood, and by fire, will blench from my purpose for the outcries of a single wretch?
Dost thou think that I, who have seen a town sacked, in which thousands of my Christian countrymen perished by sword, by flood, and by fire, will blench from my purpose for the outcries or screams of one single wretched Jew?
To avoid discipline and to blench at pain is to evade life.
Patience herself, what goddess e'er she be, 25 Doth lesser blench at sufferance than I do.
In 1543 John Mackenzie acquired Kildins, part of Lochbroom, to himself and Elizabeth Grant, his wife, holding blench for a penny, and confirmed in the same year by Queen Mary.
A charter implementing this contract is dated the 20th of October following, by which the lands are to be holden blench and for relieving Kintail of the feu-duty and services payable to his superiors.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blench" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
