Which preposition to use with flinches
She knew her father too well to suppose that he would flinch from any measure he had proposed to himself.
He would not flinch at confronting the whole German army.
Not a man who failed at need; not a man of them all who flinched in the press; not one who took thought for his life.
Nay, since even the Senator Marcantonio had not flinched before that wonderful agonized white face, he need not confine her, as he had intended, in a convent for decorous keeping; he was glad of the change in her favor which would prevent the harshness that might have increased her influence to the degree of danger.
These methods, however, are never wholly satisfactory, as a horse with the soundest of feet will sometimes flinch under these manipulations.
The coronet is hot, and tender to the touch, sometimes even perceptibly swollen, and percussion over the wail is met with flinching on the part of the animal.
Now, man of iron though he seemed, Sir Benedict must needs start and flinch beneath her hold and grow livid by reason of the sharp pain of it; whereat she loosed him of a sudden and fell away, white hands tight clasped together.
" She flinched behind the gun's muzzle in resentful affright.
The rain was still beating furiously down, but Diamond did not flinch with his master's hand upon him.
They made her flinch by their very ruthlessness.
Who is with him?" The priest saw that he flinched for the first time when told that the wounded man had been taken to Ruth's room.
"He did not flinch through all the trial, Jacqueline.
These sheep would almost never flinch to the shot, and it was difficult to tell when you had hit, unless in an immediately vital spot.
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