10 collocations for flinching

Those specially developed, gutta-percha-like abdominal muscles of the hardened pugilist will take without flinching a blow which would leave another man writhing on the ground.

What Addison thought of the 'little images of Ridicule' set up against him, the last paragraph of this Essay shows, but the collation of texts shows that he did flinch a little.

Do, And if I faint and flinch in't Cla.

Do not flinch, my beloved friend; be not ashamed to become a true follower of Christ.

At Flora's touch the speaker flinched back from the roof's edge, the maiden aiding the recoil.

" Again Anna flinched: "Mobile!"

He had flinched onceand only onceduring the squire's speech, and that was at the first mention of Juliet.

Sea-boots of a formidable size completed his dress, and in his hand he held a large whaling-knife, which he brandished, as if impatient to employ it in the operation of flinching the huge animal which lay before them,that is, the act of separating its flesh from its bones.

The bridge was completed within the specified time and bore without flinching all the severe tests to which it was put.

There was no thought now of yielding; he felt brave and strong to meet every trial, yes, every terror that might lie in his path, without flinching one hair's breadth from the stern line of duty.

10 collocations for  flinching