Blench

(v. i.) To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.

(v. i.) To fly off; to turn aside.

(v. t.) To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder.

(v. t.) To draw back from; to deny from fear.

(n.) A looking aside or askance.

(v. i. & t.) To grow or make pale.

埃利奥特录入

• Let me behold thee then in thy bodily shape, if thou be'st indeed a fiend, replied the dying knight; think not that I will blench from thee. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• She never blenched or trembled. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• With him went enthusiasm, the high-wrought resolve, the eye that without blenching could look at death. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

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