| As if by inspiration, she grasped the other's band with a force which blenched the knuckles. |
| He never could abide Brillat-Savarin and the panoply of theory around simple issues of hunger and pleasure erected by the French in the 19th century, and blenched at pretension. |
| This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfillment. |
| Terrified by that threat, Valerie had blenched, and had felt her spirit deserting her. |
| But even Melville might have blenched at Browning's final exordium. |
| Many philosophers blenched at the idea even of educating, let alone empowering, the common people. |
