Use of the word balking in a sentence example

balking

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It is entirely displaced by anger over the balking of the maternal instinct of protection. [Please select]

"Why--why--" stammered the youth struggling with his balking tongue. [Please select]

At the camp it had meant breaking bounds, balking the Military Police, doing forbidden things generally. [Please select]

Remember that a balking horse generally swerves to the left, Barnabas. [Please select]

"Yes, he fought like the devil, and came near balking the whole game." [Please select]

Shying, balking, and kicking, and champing the political bit, are only spirited to the childish. [Please select]

"Look here," he said, eyeing Milbanke, "what did you mean by balking her like that." [Please select]

He tried once or twice, stammering and balking, to the annoyance of the judge, who was gasping from the odor of fertilizer. [Please select]

There was a satisfaction in finding the key to a balking problem and see it cease to be a problem. [Please select]

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