Which preposition to use with balked

at Occurrences 21%

Another hour was over; there were but two miles before him to the Gap: but the old mare panted and balked at every ditch across the road.

of Occurrences 21%

"I want something and I don't know what to want" is the expression of a state very frequent in children, and not infrequent in grown-up people, because they have been balked of something.

in Occurrences 12%

O'Brien made a costly balk in the first inning and the Boston players generally seemed to be less energetic and less confident than would have been expected from a team which had but one game to win to make the championship assured.

with Occurrences 3%

Others merely "listed" the fields by first running a furrow with a shovel plow where each cotton or corn row was to be and filling it with a single furrow of a turn plow from either side; then when planting time approached they would break out the remaining balks with plows, turning the soil to the lists and broadening them into rounded plant beds.

for Occurrences 3%

When the music to which Tom plays secondo is strictly classical, he sometimes balks for an instant in passages; to do otherwise would argue a creative power equal to that of the master composers; but when any chordant harmony runs through it, (on which the glowing negro soul can seize, you know,) there are no "false accords," as with the infant Mozart.

on Occurrences 3%

Patsy balked on the third slice of toast and took it away from him.

against Occurrences 1%

But, at all events, the colonel's besetting infirmity was always to shrink from making changes; instinctively he balked against commission of any action which would alter his relations with accustomed circumstances or persons.

after Occurrences 1%

If asked the courses, I balk after the recital of the soup.

to Occurrences 1%

But suppose a tube let down from the moon, with yourself at one end, and the man at the other; it would be some balk to the spirit of conversation, if you knew that the dialogue exchanged with that interesting theosophist would take two or three revolutions of a higher luminary in its passage.

along Occurrences 1%

One day, after the first freeze this winter, I was Balking along a little pond.

Which preposition to use with  balked