Fid was in no disposition to balk his curiosity, but rather deemed himself bound, since he had once entered on the subject, to leave no part of it in obscurity.

But the belligerency of the Belgians and the cooperation of the British balked these plans, while the Russians moved faster than was expected by their foe.

Signore, thy palm?" Maso spread his sinewy hand in the direction of the juggler, without descending from his elevation, and in a way to show that, while he would not balk the common humor, he was superior to the gaping wonder and childish credulity of most of those who watched the result.

Nor does it balk my charity to find The Egyptian bishop of another mind: For though his creed eternal truth contains, 'Tis hard for man to doom to endless pains All who believed not all his zeal required; Unless he first could prove he was inspired.

"For God's sake, don't do that!" cried Helen, balking her clutch.

no more could tell where Apsley House is, or whether it was a tavern or a gaol, than he knew half the other things on which he delivered oracular opinions; but when it became necessary to speak, he was not apt to balk conversation from any ignorance, real or affected.

" "Oh, Peggy!" gasped Jess, "you would" "Do anything within reason to balk that Mortlake crowd in their trickery and deceit," declared Peggy, with flashing eyes.

We sit in a cloud, and sing, like pictured angels, And say, the world runs smoothwhile right below Welters the black fermenting heap of life On which our state is built: I saw this day What we might be, and still be Christian women: And mothers tooI saw one, laid in childbed These three cold weeks upon the black damp straw; No nurses, cordials, or that nice parade With which we try to balk the curse of Eve

But now he checks his anger, And gently on his steed Draws near, with smile of greeting, That none may balk the deed.

I made known to the steward the assistant physician's behavior in balking my desire to telephone my conservator.

Then strive not thou to balk the gods' just doom.

He could be relied upon to balk every effort my mother might make to find me.

Moreoverthis may seem a super-subtlety, but one has seen it neglected with notably bad effecta playwright should never let his audience expect the fall of a curtain at a given point, and then balk their expectancy, unless he is sure that he holds in reserve a more than adequate compensation.

Nosince 'tis resolved, a Womanshe must be old and ugly, and will not balk my Fancy with her sight, but baits me more with this essential Beauty.

"We sing old sagas, songs of weal and woe, Mystic because too cheaply understood; Dark sayings are not ours; men hear and know, See Evil weak, see only strong the Good, Yet hope to balk Doom's fire with walls of tow.

"You will have to be very cautious, because if these pesky Abolitionists get an inkling of what you're doing they will balk your game double quick.

Now, your English tourists have always a residue of scruple about them which balks their genius.

But this was it that balked the gentry of Yorkshire, who went home again, giving the king good promises, but never appeared for him, till by raising a good army in Shropshire and Wales, he marched towards London, and they saw there was a prospect of their being supported.

[cause to be disappointed] disappoint; frustrate, discomfit, crush, defeat (failure) 732; crush one's hope, dash one's hope, balk one's hope, disappoint one's hope, blight one's hope, falsify one's hope, defeat one's hope, discourage; balk, jilt, bilk; play one false, play a trick; dash the cup from the lips, tantalize; dumfound, dumbfound, dumbfounder, dumfounder (astonish) 870.

A miserable horse, whose ribs were as articulate as the bars of a gridiron, stalked about a field, where a thin carpet of moss, scarcely covering the ragged beds of pudding-stone, tantalized and balked his hunger; and sometimes he would lean his head over the fence, look piteously at the passer-by, and seem to petition deliverance from this land of famine.

Nor purchase what we're seeking; And if in parties we must talk Nothing but sterling wit, we balk All interchange of speaking.

Ef he balks jest let him rest a time, an' then speak to him.

"I won't balk your luck.

It was not that he wished to bring the schoolteacher to trouble, but it had angered him to see one girl balk seven grown men.

Thy ardor gets the better of reason; but this is the way with true love, which is none the worse for a little delay Alida is not one to balk thy merriment; these Norman wenches are not heavy of foot at a dance, or apt to go to sleep when the fiddles are stirring!" With this consolation, Alderman Van Beverout saw fit to close the dialogue, for the moment.