To avoid discipline and to blench at pain is to evade life.

Did love demand it, love, though it might blush, would not blench.

She did not blench, but looked him steadily in the eyes.

And he set his teeth when he saw that Perris did not blench.

As I knew he meant me no bodily harm, I did not blench.

But he neither for that, nor for aught else would blench one whit.

Said an old warrior: If that be so, Thiodolf, wilt thou blench twice?

I thought that he would blench, but he did not.

Why blench if your conscience accuses you of no fault?

Bookkeeper (sternly-tragically): "In the bridegroom's pile!-beholdthe thief-see him blench and tremble!"

Whatever comes, I will not blench from the truth.

He did not blench when Mazarine came towards him.

Musa got closer to Mr. Ziegler, who did not blench nor cease from his humming.

But she did not blench in the least, though she remembered whose words he was quoting.

Yet they made every churchman there blench, and the preacher changed the subject with all haste.

She would not even blench at my questions.