baulking

• “One could view him as baulking at the public display, at the loss of his name as a loss of reputation, a shaming in the eyes of others.”

  Modality and Hamlet

• “The people understand this so they are baulking on this Health bill.”

  Kennedy 'expected more of us' on health care, Dodd says

• “While not explicitly stated I believe they could be baulking on delivery for one or more of the reasons below.”

  Silver Certificates and failure to redeem.

• “On leaving he had said gently, as always not baulking the truth.”

  Fictionaut: She Closed Her Eyes

• “The quickest way back from Glencorse would have been to go straight across the well-worn path to Bonaly, but I was baulking at having to negotiate all the mud on the first half of the route.”

  1 measly second

• “And Iran is baulking at a U.N. resolution condemning its nuclear program.”

  CNN Transcript Nov 28, 2009

• “It has an administration so blatantly corrupt that the world is baulking at its arrogance.”

  Alan Cumming: Why Is America So Content With Mediocrity?

• “You are baulking at the idea that "the state" should have any say in what you decide your children sahould watch.”

  I decide what my child watches

• “The great house, dumb as to all that had been suffered in it, and the changes it had witnessed, stood frowning like a dark mute on the street; baulking any nearer inquiries with the staring announcement that the lease of this desirable Family Mansion was to be disposed of.”

  Dombey and Son

• “Her own room was not yet touched within, but there were beams and boards raised against it without, baulking the daylight.”

  Dombey and Son

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