Thereupon Thorkel the Tall, his brother, made a solemn vow to follow his brother Sigvalde to Norway, and not flinch from the battle so long as Sigvalde would fight there.
Then Bue the Thick vowed to follow them to Norway, and not flinch so long as the other Jomsborg vikings fought.
I shall not flinch again,' said Gawain; 'strike quickly.
If she had to face all the horrors of her life anew for it, would she flinch from one of them, only to hear that the heart that had stopped its beating would beat again, that the voice that was still would sound in her ears once more?
Then, with a nettle-grasping instinct, as one determined to flinch from nothing, "Reverend Samuel Herrick.
She had made up her mind to flinch from nothing, always to grasp her nettle.
Willy thought that it must be dangerous work to fight such formidable creatures; still he was not inclined to flinch from it.
Desperate as appears our condition, I do not despair; and, at all events, I am confident that none of you will flinch from what requires to be done.
A man with a mouth like that could not flinch in the hour of peril if he tried, for his jaw had the Kitchener grip, the antithesis of the parrot pout of the dandy, or the flabby fulness of the fool.
Bismarck did not flinch from fighting the Prussian assembly in the national interest any more than he flinched under different circumstances from calling the German democracy to his aid.
While Royson was carrying her on the high-peaked Arab saddle, the strain grew almost intolerable, but her brave heart did not flinch under that exquisite pain.
A curious change passed over his face; a kind of dawning consciousness which, it was obvious, embarrassed him to the point of torture, while he resolutely declined to flinch at it.
I do not flinch from death, and will meet it like a soldier.
We have looked death in the face together many times, but I never knew him to flinch or play a coward's part.
She did not flinch from the pain which I knew she must have suffered, but looked at him with eyes that were more appealing than ever.
Some of you here know, perhaps all; but I vow to Heaven I shall not flinch from my resolve to extract the truth, no matter with whom the responsibility rests!
Will you flinch if I ask you to destroy every man on the other side of that door?
He did not flinch now; but threw open the door of the nearest room on the upper floor.
She did not flinch from the scrutiny, and there was a certain sadness in the Pole's next comment.
However, they were not the men to flinchat the thought of danger.
He does not flinch at the prospect of a death which would be an eternal dishonour to even the most cowardly brave.
The carnage on the Chesapeake's deck was now frightful, and the men began to flinch from their guns.
This was done by the Shannon's boatswain, who had his arm literally hacked off in doing it, but who did not flinch from his task.
They did not flinch from Jake's straight regard, neither did they wholly meet it.
Again he saw the hot colour flood the thin face, but the boyish eyes did not flinch from his.
But she did not flinch from his look or start as his lips came to hers.
Do you suppose that, loving you as I do, I could bear to take you in my arms when I knew that you were fighting your natural inclination in order not to flinch from my touch?
She must not flinch because it was turning out so much worse than she had thought possible.
It is a grand scheme, but we live in the day of great deeds, and should not flinch from them.
The task before us is a tremendous one, but so is the war, and we must not flinch from it.
He feared that she had caught his flinch of surprise at that announcement but he replied evenly: "Marian wrote to me that she had seen you.
He felt the figure in his arms flinch at the words, "There's no question of that, but how am I to keep him from raging himself to death?
Laertes from the first had been of his opinion: he now declared that he would not flinch or fail.
Without falter or flinch she spoke his name--with a face of stone she waited for the answer.
But she did not flinch from her resolve; her mind was made up.
A man does not flinch from a painful operation, and, whatever the pain, it has to be faced.
Do not fear that I will flinch from applying the things you have sent me.
I shall suffer, but there are hundreds of other women whose husbands, lovers, or sons are in the fray, and I shall not flinch more than they do from giving my dearest to the work of avenging our murdered friends and winning back India.
