The coronet is hot, and tender to the touch, sometimes even perceptibly swollen, and percussion over the wail is met with flinchingon the part of the animal.
No coronary enlargement or flinching on pressure to the coronet, no shrinkage or wiring in of the heels, neither is the characteristic pointing of navicular present.
Broke ran forward, and seeing his foes flinching from the quarter-deck guns, he ordered the ships to be lashed together, the great guns to cease firing, and the boarders to be called.
He was resolute, however; there was noflinching yet in this versatile, yet obstinate nature; he was as wicked and as enduring as a Pizarro.
The savage black eyes and the imperious blue ones stared into each other without the least flinching and with something like friendliness.
Further, I want to state and advocate my opinions in the face of day, and you may be sure that I shall do this without flinching before anybody's threats or anybody's displeasure or indignation.
He stood by his people, as he liked to call them, in their defeat and in their calamity withoutflinching or reservation.
No monkey tricks, now,” and he pushed his pistol close to the German’s flinching head.
They were both well out to the left of their advancing line and Ratty was instinctively flinching from the direct route into those gusts of flame and smoke.
He's the Queen," explained The Cure, indicating the flinching figure of Mr. Stillbottle.
Then his inherent pride asserted itself, and without flinching he turned round.
At this everybody laughed spontaneously as if something very witty had been said; but the child only stood there frowning, showing traces of the resolute character which so quickly developed by not flinching at an inch.
But neither do I believe in the Government flinching from overseeing any work when it becomes evident that abuses are sure to obtain therein unless there is governmental supervision.
Whenever such an issue is raised in this country nothing can be gained by flinching from it, for in such case democracy is itself on trial, popular self-government under republican forms is itself on trial.
Flinching a whale," slicing the blubber from the bones.
When was it we deserted you, either in council or in fight, that you should be afraid of our flinching now?
Had they seen a sign of flinching they might have risked the issue, but there was none.
She plied the crowd with flowers as long as they lasted, and a jaunty self possession enabled her finally to gaze without flinching at the mass of depraved and wicked faces with which she was surrounded.
The pale-face reaches for his weapons, and finding them gone, jumps to his feet, gazing without flinching at his stalwart captors.
And believe me there's no flinchingamong them now that we are up against the Huns!
To be in Nancy these times is to be in a stilled, half-deserted place of flinching and of danger, and of the death that comes by night, borne on whirring motors.
Yes, he was quite alone," said Richard, flinching under this cross-examination.
Mrs Slee seized Sim pretty roughly, and held him by his ears, while the plaister was affixed, the great orator moaning and flinching and writhing till he was set at liberty.
Quite possible," said Magdalen, without a moment's flinching from the answer.
Tapping the heel of the shoe with a hammer and grasping the wall and bar between the jaws of pincers with moderate pressure will cause more or less flinching if the disease is present.
If lameness follows close upon the setting of the shoes, without other appreciable cause, each nail should be lightly struck with a hammer, when the one at fault will be detected by the flinching of the animal.
Another method of detecting the affected part is to press the fingers between the ribs, each space in succession, beginning behind the elbow, until a place where the pressure causes more flinching than at any other part is reached.
Men who can face death without flinching in the light of day often quail at the thought of it in the darkness.
The hornets, flinching on their part, Show that the work transcends their art.
They march'd as to a feast, Not flinchingin the least.
Flinching travellers, who behold themselves coasting eternity at every corner, look with natural admiration at their driver's huge, impassive, fleshy countenance.
They bore without flinching the fire of the French brigade du Roi, and, crossing a ravine and small morass, rushed with fixed bayonets, and the most determined resolution, right against the intrenchment.
Max obeyed to the letter, and followed into the stream, flinching and making faces and balancing, as he held a shoe in each hand.
Now you may speak, Martin Schenk; tell the father whether your heart is flinching and trembling.
He smiled on those bold Romans A smile serene and high; He eyed the flinching Tuscans, And scorn was in his eye.
Calm was the sea, but not less calm that band Close ranged upon the poop, with bated breath, But flinching not though eye to eye with Death!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flinching" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
