Baulk

Examples

• He said he would even have spent as much, to baulk or injure Copperfield. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• If we wait, if we baulk the issue, we do but hang about the gates in undignified uneasiness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And then my lord would defy the ghost which threatened him, for he knew of a remedy by which he could baulk his enemy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Rather baulked, Mr Riderhood evasively remarked, with an innocent air, that he believed the T'other Governor had asked him summa't. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Now, at this eleventh hour, she was not to be baulked. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I'll not be baulked of saying her good-bye by any relations whatsomdever. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The amiable occupation has been the solace of my life, since I was baulked in the manner unnecessary to recall. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• No baulking the issue, no listening to the lesser voices. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• One must go where the unfaltering spirit goes, there must be no baulking the issue, because of fear. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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