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  • adjective superlative form of balky: most balky.

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Examples

  • Ed was one of the balkiest boys I ever had in my school.

    Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson

  • Another man "wouldn't drive old Sall-she was de balkiest mule on de place; you won't get a mile from here 'fore she takes de contraries, and won't budge a step."

    The Romance of the Civil War 1903

  • All those stately equipages were good, and the one that fell to us mounted the hill to our hotel by a grade so insinuating that the balkiest horse in

    Roman Holidays, and Others William Dean Howells 1878

  • Oh, those fine sleek mules which used to kick up their heels in the pasture across the road, and the handsome carriage horses, her little mare, the girls’ ponies and Gerald’s big stallion racing about and tearing up the turf—Oh, for one of them, even the balkiest mule!

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Oh, those fine sleek mules which used to kick up their heels in the pasture across the road, and the handsome carriage horses, her little mare, the girls’ ponies and Gerald’s big stallion racing about and tearing up the turf—Oh, for one of them, even the balkiest mule!

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Oh, those fine sleek mules which used to kick up their heels in the pasture across the road, and the handsome carriage horses, her little mare, the girls’ ponies and Gerald’s big stallion racing about and tearing up the turf—Oh, for one of them, even the balkiest mule!

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Oh, those fine sleek mules which used to kick up their heels in the pasture across the road, and the handsome carriage horses, her little mare, the girls’ ponies and Gerald’s big stallion racing about and tearing up the turf—Oh, for one of them, even the balkiest mule!

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Oh, those fine sleek mules which used to kick up their heels in the pasture across the road, and the handsome carriage horses, her little mare, the girls’ ponies and Gerald’s big stallion racing about and tearing up the turf—Oh, for one of them, even the balkiest mule!

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

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