1 Edna admired the skill of his maneuver, and avoided any occasion to balk his intentions.
2 She stored it up against her sister, this balk in her plans.
3 At the very moment when she would have seized her prey, the hare moved and darted along the balk between the winter rye and the stubble.
4 Real affection, it seemed, he could not have for me; it had been only fitful passion: that was balked; he would want me no more.
5 The clergyman's shy and sensitive reserve had balked this scheme.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART 6 Still, she nosed her way up unevenly, till she came to where the hyacinths were all around her, then she balked, struggled, jerked a little way out of the flowers, then stopped.
7 From time to time also he balked them by a sudden effort of the will, as by lifting them suddenly in the middle of an unfinished sentence and closing the book.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 4 8 He tried once or twice, stammering and balking, to the annoyance of the judge, who was gasping from the odor of fertilizer.
9 "Why--why--" stammered the youth struggling with his balking tongue.