blenching

It will come as little comfort to many motorists blenching at the pumps today at having to pay 130p or more a litre to fill up their cars with unleaded petrol, but the surge in the price of oil may not all be bad news.

Oil prices: Green light from the black stuff | Editorial 2011

Few there were who could look up on Ariakas's face without blenching.

Finnegan teoriza la practica de cuerdas Carlos G.Tonda 2010

Senators Joe Biden (D-DE), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), and Ken Salazar (D-CO) plan to campaign in Connecticut for Lieberman between now and the primary, in hopes of reassuring the Democratic faithful of his apparently blenching loyalty to the party.

Midterm Roundup 2009

There they stood in dazzling sheen, neither blenching, all eagerness to hurl their lances each at the other.

The Phoenissae 2008

There they stood in dazzling sheen, neither blenching, all eagerness to hurl their lances each at the other.

The Phoenissae 2008

I was still blenching at the thought of Daddy being charm personified.

The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008

I was still blenching at the thought of Daddy being charm personified.

The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008

I was still blenching at the thought of Daddy being charm personified.

The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008

With him went enthusiasm, the high-wrought resolve, the eye that without blenching could look at death.

The Last Man 2003

He wasted breath in saying what was to happen shortly, sanguinary, oriental soul-blenching things, when the broom no longer separated them.

The History of Mr. Polly 2003