"Baulk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... so set his heart upon Sally, and Sally alone, that nothing was to be allowed to baulk him; and his ...
— Wessex Tales • Thomas Hardy
... irons on that hill Earth has tossed a fairy fire: Watch, and listen, and be still, Lest you baulk your own desire. ...
— The Lord of Misrule - And Other Poems • Alfred Noyes
... and so shalt thou serve Allah the more; * The youth who gives women the rein must forfeit all hope to soar. They'll baulk him when seeking the strange device, Excelsior, * Tho' waste he a thousand of years in the study of science ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton
... more timid than we think 'em, my dear,' returned Mrs Todgers. 'They baulk themselves continually. I saw the words on Todgers's lips for months and months and months, before ...
— Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens
... Christie and missed. Thereupon Mr. Patmore demanded a second shot, which, I am informed, could and should, by all laws of the duello, have been refused. Both principal and second on the other side were, however, inexperienced and probably unwilling to baulk their adversaries. Shots were again exchanged, Christie this time (as he can hardly be blamed for doing) taking aim at his adversary and wounding him mortally. Patmore fled the country, Christie and Traill took their trial ...
— Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 • George Saintsbury
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