He did not therefore allow her any hope that he would
flinch; only he represented his action as one of simple vengeance.
Every time she held the skimmer under the pump to cool it for the work her hand trembled, the ardour of his affection being so palpable that she seemed to
flinch under it like a plant in too burning a sun.
Rocke flinched before the steady gaze of those cold enquiring eyes, in which he fancied, too, that a gleam of malice shone.
Besides, what was the use of mincing matters with a man who had all the appearance of a human automaton, who never flinched or changed color, and whose passions seemed dried up and withered things?
He
flinches with the pain, and the picador skips out of danger.
On went the boat, the poor Tin-soldier keeping himself as stiff as he could: no one should say of him afterwards that he had
flinched. The boat whirled three, four times round, and became filled to the brim with water: it began to sink!
The accused, who was (and who knew he was) being mentally hanged, beheaded, and quartered, by everybody there, neither
flinched from the situation, nor assumed any theatrical air in it.
Seeing this, Don Quixote braced his buckler on his arm, and with his hand on his sword exclaimed, "O Lady of Beauty, strength and support of my faint heart, it is time for thee to turn the eyes of thy greatness on this thy captive knight on the brink of so mighty an adventure." By this he felt himself so inspired that he would not have
flinched if all the carriers in the world had assailed him.
Some shrank and
flinched. They stood as men tied to stakes.
THE new Netflix game show
Flinch is worth your time if you want to answer the following question with absolute certainty: What's the most pointless show on television?
Makes you
flinch, just looking at it
FLINCH NETFLIX THERE'S a stark warning before this latest game show begins.
In the absurd series, cut for the YouTube generation, eight people face three fiendish games during which they must not
flinch. Harder than it sounds.