blench

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blench englannista suomeksi

1. kalveta

0. Substantiivi

blench englanniksi

1. To shrink; start back; way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.

2. {{quote-text|en|year=a. 1870|author=William Cullen Bryant|title=The Battle-Field

3. (quote-text)|chapter=Life of Curran|title=(w) May 1820

4. (quote-book) Again it leaped into the air, and then swiftly fell down upon Éowyn, shrieking, striking with beak and claw. Still she did not blench: maiden of the Rohirrim, child of kings (..)

5. (quote-journal)

6. 1998, Andrew Hurley (translator), (w), "Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrnth", Collected Fictions, Penguin Putnam, p.255

"This," said Dunraven with a vast gesture that did not blench at the cloudy stars, and that took in the black moors, the sea, and a majestic, tumbledown edifice that looked like a stable fallen upon hard times, "is my ancestral land."

7. To quail.

8. To deceive; cheat.

9. To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.

10. {{quote-journal|en|date=Jan 13 2012|author=Polly Toynbee|title=Welfare cuts: Cameron's problem is that people are nicer than he thinks|journal=The Guardian

11. To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.

12. To fly off; to turn aside.

13. (RQ:Shakespeare Measure)

14. A deceit; a trick.

15. A sidelong glance.

16. (RQ:Shakespeare Sonnets)

17. To blanch.

18. (RQ:Miller Cancer)

19. c. 1210, MS. Cotton Caligula A IX f.246.

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