baulk

How To Use baulk In A Sentence

• It is true: but liberality baulkes, and feares covetousnesse and niggardize, more a great deale then prodigallity; so does zeale lukewarmnes and coldnesse, more then too much heate and forwardnesse; the defect is more opposite and dangerous to some vertues, then the excesse. A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich
• These Mesolithic cultures (Mesolithic, meaning “Middle Stone Age, ” describes post–Ice Age European hunter-gatherers) achieved some degree of social complexity in Scandinavia, where richly decorated individuals were buried in cemeteries by 5500 B.C.E. These same cultures were the indigenous societies of Europe, farmers who first spread north and west across central Europe from the Balkans after 4500 B.C.E. 1 3. Mesolithic Hunter-Gatherers in Europe
• When the gentleman who guided me through the bush left me on the side of a pali, I discovered that Kahele, though strong, gentle, and sure-footed, possesses the odious fault known as balking, and expressed his aversion to ascend the other side in a most unmistakable manner. The Hawaiian Archipelago
• Some may balk at the frivolous approach to taking drugs, but few series are as vocal in their celebration of youthful individuality. Times, Sunday Times
• Brown had been hobbled since training camp with a balky left knee that caused him pain from the second day of practice.
• At first she baulked at the idea, saying she no longer performed those pieces.
• The Orthodox agreed to cooperate, but balked at merging the two efforts.
• Even if you do baulk at some of the more outlandish examples of soporifics cited or quibble with a theory or two, Martin's message is strangely comforting.
• Brown had been hobbled since training camp with a balky left knee that caused him pain from the second day of practice.
• An original plan to make sure all taxis were painted black-and-yellow was dumped after cabbies baulked at the cost.