How To Use Blench In A Sentence
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Evandale; “he is tottering on the verge between time and eternity, a situation more appalling than the most hideous certainty; yet his is the only cheek unblenched, the only eye that is calm, the only heart that keeps its usual time, the only nerves that are not quivering.
Old Mortality
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She blenches at the very thought of changing a baby's dirty nappy.
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He kept passing worse and worse laws to see if Jack Straw on the opposite bench would blench at each ever more extreme law and order measure.
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The movie is even more violent than its predecessors, the language reaches levels of obscenity that would make David Mamet blench and uses the real names of everyone concerned.
Bonded by Blood
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Then the Lord sat silent, and seemed to be pondering: at last he said, as if to himself: "Yet there is one thing: many a blencher can sing of battle; and it hath been seen, that a fair body of a man is whiles soft amidst the hard hand-play.
The Well at the World's End: a tale
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Gabriel now, as his eye rested full upon that threatening brow and those burning eyes, was convinced that he saw before him the terrible Pierre Guillot, whose very name blenched his father's cheek.
Lucretia — Complete
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In accursed places; beheld, unblenched, the ribbon of light {1i}
Ballads
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Again the unblenching "preux chevalier" Champlain stands with his back against the gray cliff of Quebec fighting red and white foe alike, famine and disease, to keep a foothold in the wilderness, with the sublime faith of a crusader and the patient endurance of a Prometheus.
The French in the Heart of America
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Yet, with unblenching brow, he waits the falling of the thunderbolt, a calm, grand figure, fit to live in history's pages when every memory of meaner men has passed into oblivion, M.T. Steyn,
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front
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At the sight of the dead animal, Diana blenched.
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'I look to be no blencher in the battle,' said Face-of-god; 'that is not the fashion of our kindred, whosoever may be before us.
The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale
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Ben and Debs Blench, brave Brits in their 30s, threw away their jobs, sold their car, subleased their Amsterdam apartment and set off to see the world.
One month in Mexico
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My sister blenches at the very thought of changing a baby's nappy.
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Chapmen were three old men, and more than one blencher besides.
The Well at the World's End: a tale
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Valenso blenched and Zarono swore, while Strom grinned quietly.
The Conquering Sword of Conan
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She blenched and left hurriedly; I doubt that she will be back.
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[Illustration: IMPERIAL NOSEGAY.] "May it please your excellency," responded the men, firmly and with unblenched faces, "we ran away, it is true; but we are not cowards.
The Land of Thor
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He steadily confronted them with an unblenching eye, grasping the club of which he had possessed himself, in readiness to meet the attack, which he at the same time did nothing, by look or gesture, to provoke.
The Island Home
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Well enough," said Richard; "thine host shall not be a great one, but no man in it will be a blencher, for they be all champions of the Dry Tree.
The Well at the World's End: a tale
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Their rising greatness, to the merited disgrace and death of Piers de Gavestone and his profligate minions! and their final exaltation to the highest honours of the British peerage, which they have now enjoyed for five hundred years, to the strong hand and unblenching heart with which they have always welcomed the assaults of their most powerful enemies!
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 354, January 31, 1829
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In reality, we live in Ardwick, one of those addresses that makes insurance companies blench.
DEAD BEAT
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Spinning around, she jabbed the hilt of her dagger into the stomach of the assassin, causing him to blench, his body going limp as he fell to the floor, unconscious.
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That this debate would be directly relevant to Michelangelo's poetry, let alone to Petrarch's, is a stretch that might have made literary critics blench.
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Purists and pedants alike regularly blench when they see the things even supposedly careful writers do with the apostrophe.
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Partly her unblenching courage was the product of a strong will in a splendid physical organization; partly, alas! it arose from a disregard of life, which she felt was worthless.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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She blenched at the thought of picking up the dead animal.
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I blench to say this of a fellow Burger but NWB is . . . no . . . gentleman.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Casualties.
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She sat with a pale, blenched face, and tears in her eyes.
Kangaroo
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A headline in the current Spectator made me blench.
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The Prince of Noirbourg bade his beleaguered lieutenant not to lose heart: he himself never for a moment blenched in this trying hour of danger.
The Kickleburys on the Rhine
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He sat there unblenched and apparently unmoved, though it was plain that he was intensely watchful and ready.
The Prairie Chief
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Piety never more decisively asserts its celestial birth than when it stands unblenched under the frown of the persecutor, or calmly awaits the shock of death.
The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution
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She blenches at the very thought of changing a baby's dirty nappy.
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She passes on in unblenched majesty," said Lady Delacour.
Tales and Novels — Volume 03
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When the chariot rolled away, he looked at her as she sat erect in the early morning light, as unblenched, bright and untouched in bloom as if she had that moment risen from her pillow and washed her face in dew.
A Lady of Quality
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Many philosophers blenched at the idea even of educating, let alone empowering, the common people.
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For the true face of catwalk evil, look instead to the girl models, some so emaciated they made Samantha Cameron blench in shock.
If tokenism is what it takes to get on, so be it | Barbara Ellen
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In reality, we live in Ardwick, one of those addresses that makes insurance companies blench.
DEAD BEAT
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She blenched at the thought of picking up the dead animal.
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By grots and caverns shagged with horrid shades, nay, in the midst of every tremendous assailant, "might pass on with unblenched majesty," uninjured and invulnerable.
Lives of the Necromancers
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'She passes on in unblenched majesty,' said Lady Delacour.
Belinda
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Yet was there a stranger guest among us who did all this and more with unblenching brow, unruffled self-possession, unequalled courtesy, who, if discovered, would have been arrested and consigned to a lock-up, only to be exchanged for the gloom and the manacles of the condemned cell.
Robbery Under Arms
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Unblenched (echoing unfound) suggests unflinching: is it the wind, or voice of the moment forming a memory?
Times, Sunday Times
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Mandelson: though twice disgraced, we should not blench at using him as a weapon with which to help the EU's demise
Bantamweight Fight Fest
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Then the eastern sky blenched, and there was a small gathering of clouds round the opening gates:
The Trespasser
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She heard Colum and Dougal talking about me; that's what made her blench-she'd think Colum had heard she'd been to me for the ill-wish.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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Gabriel now, as his eye rested full upon that threatening brow and those burning eyes, was convinced that be saw before him the terrible Pierre Guillot, whose very name blenched his father's cheek.
Lucretia — Volume 03
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In every age, in every clime, she is dear, at any rate to the masculine soul, this soft, tear-blenched, blonde, ill-used thing.
Twilight in Italy
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At the sight of the dead animal, Diana blenched.
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But even Melville might have blenched at Browning's final exordium.
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Martha Stewart would blench at the Beehive decor, and it's hard to imagine Helen Clark posing with fluffy Persian cats, but otherwise Martha and Helen could pretty much swap places.
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Here, huddled together in confused, hopeless misery and ruin, lie, fettered and prostrate, even priest as well as potentate, undistinguishable victims of crude, unblenching violence, with its climax of nefarious sacrilege.
West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas
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This moment uproots another in unblenched voice, tree-strode pitch.
Times, Sunday Times
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He started at every flash of lightning, and blenched at every roll of thunder.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
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She blenched with terror.
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How my words, my very presence and smell of me, of my words, must make you furiously blench!
Excerpt from Urdoxa 2.0
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And alas, for the sword that swung then, unscabbarded, by each man's side and for the knee that never bent to any and for the fearless eyes that watched unblenched while the gods lamed each other with their lightnings in the thunder-shaken storm!
The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel
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Her lips at length became blenched and her eye dim; yet she spoke not of any desire to see a priest, until Elspeth Glendinning in her zeal could not refrain from touching upon a point which she deemed essential to salvation.
The Monastery
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( "The word 'blench' came from Rehnquist," Bradley says.
Rehnquist the Great?
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For I know thee no battle-blencher, but a valiant man of thine hands.
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs
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Each fellow stood there as bravely as human flesh and blood could stand, and faced the iron hail with unblenching courage and intrepid coolness.
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front
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My sister blenches at the very thought of changing a baby's nappy.
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To be sure, there was an exception in the curate, who would receive unblenching the information that the meadow beyond the orchard was a prairie studded with herds of buffalo, which it was our delight, moccasined and tomahawked, to ride down with those whoops that announce the scenting of blood.
The Golden Age