Turn pale, as if in fear.
1To avoid discipline and to blench at pain is to evade life.
2Did love demand it, love, though it might blush, would not blench.
3She did not blench, but looked him steadily in the eyes.
4And he set his teeth when he saw that Perris did not blench.
5As I knew he meant me no bodily harm, I did not blench.
6But he neither for that, nor for aught else would blench one whit.
7Said an old warrior: If that be so, Thiodolf, wilt thou blench twice?
8I thought that he would blench, but he did not.
9Why blench if your conscience accuses you of no fault?
10Bookkeeper (sternly-tragically): "In the bridegroom's pile!-beholdthe thief-see him blench and tremble!"
11Whatever comes, I will not blench from the truth.
12He did not blench when Mazarine came towards him.
13Musa got closer to Mr. Ziegler, who did not blench nor cease from his humming.
14But she did not blench in the least, though she remembered whose words he was quoting.
15Yet they made every churchman there blench, and the preacher changed the subject with all haste.
16She would not even blench at my questions.