But the Duchess spake not, nor blenched even when the dagger gleamed to strikeO sweet God of mercy, to strike!

Now looking from the man's grim features to this murderous cord, Beltane blenched and shivered, whereat Black Roger laughed aloud, and pointed a scornful finger.

he cried; and beholding his look, Gurth of a sudden loosed the swooning maid and, drawing sword, leapt and smote at Beltane's golden head; but Beltane caught the blow in his mailed hand, and snapped the blade in sunder, and, seizing Gurth about the loins, whirled him high in air; then, while all men blenched and held their breath waiting the thud of his broken body in the dust, Beltane stayed and set him down upon his feet.

And suddenly high above the swaying crowd rose the head and shoulders of a man, a mighty man in the dusty habit of a miller, upon whose low-drawn hood and be-floured smock were great gouts and stains evil and dark; and now, beholding what manner of stains these were, all men fell silent and blenched from his path.

Bethink thee of the innocent done to cruel death by thy will, the fair cities given to ravishment and flame and judge if this be just and sufficient cause for war, and bitter war, betwixt us!" Now beholding the face of the speaker, his proud and noble bearing, his bold eyes fierce and bright and the grim line of nose and chin, Duke Ivo blenched and drew back, the smile fled from his lip, and he stared wide of eye and breathless.

Three years back you would have blenched at the name of murder.

Ile obserue his lookes, [Sidenote: 137] Ile tent him to the quicke: If he but blench

And if he doe not bleach, and change at that, Bleach is radically the same word as blench:to bleach, to blanch, to blenchto grow white.]

Louisa had incontestably blenched, for the bizarre Sarah, who conserved in Brighton the inmost spirit of the Five Towns, had thought fit to tell the servants nothing whatever.

Winchesters and shotguns protruded from the line threateningly, but the mob came on as though it were going to press through, and determined faces blenched with excitement, but not with fear.

She blenched pitifully.

' 'Forty years, perhaps?' Mrs. Steadman blenched under Lord Hartfield's steadfast looka look which questioned more searchingly than his words.

But Dr. Cashmore no more blenched now than he had blenched at the puce garment.

But Dr. Cashmore no more blenched now than he had blenched at the puce garment.

Tears from her eyes long used to weeping have blenched the coloring of her life existence, and she is passing through life with the shadow of the grave upon her desolate heart.

We quail before the rising thunderstorm Which thrills and whispers in the stifled air, Yet blench not, when it falls.

The remaining troops of Bolívar were in their rear, traversing slowly the defile; and until they reached its mouth, that living wall of Anglo-Saxon valor neither stirred nor blenched.

I appeal to the gallant soldier before me, from whose opinions I differ, but who bears, I know, a generous heart in an intrepid bosomtell me, for you needs must remember, on that day when the destinies of mankind were trembling in the balance, while death fell in showerstell me if for an instant, when to hesitate for an instant was to be lost, the 'aliens' blenched....

The shot from the opposite bank sometimes fell in the midst of the brave mountaineers, sometimes a grenade exploded, covering them with earth and fragments; but they showed no confusion, they started not, nor blenched; and, after the custom of their country, began to sing, with a melancholy, yet threatening voice, the death-song, replying alternately stanza for stanza.

Three years back you would have blenched at the name of murder.

The spectators were unanimous that neither had blenched.

Mistress Katherine's colour blenched and heightened, for the ardent masculine eyes made her like and hate in turn; his countenance glowed with warm youthfulness which both attracted and repulsed her; and she hid her face again upon Janet's shoulder.

The idea came to her that if she blenched then she would for all time forfeit his respect as well as her own.

" She blenched a little in spite of herself.

" A sudden quiver shot over Lenoir's face at this order, and his cheek blenched under the tan; but he neither spoke nor resisted.