He never said another word, but gripped her hand with such force that she flinched in pain.
" Anne flinched with the pain of his voice.
I've persuaded my conscience that it was a duty to warn him how people talked regarding his ways; and then I've recollected his confirmed bad habits, and, hopeless of benefiting him, have flinched from re-entering the dismal house, doubting if I could bear to be taken at my word.
Yet he had introduced himself to Lady Caroline—he flinched a little on remembering the circumstances—as Mellersh-Wilkins.
" Valancy flinched as if one of them had leaned from the car and cut her across the face with a whip.
If he loved her he would be unhappy when she died—Valancy never flinched from the plain word.
Valancy flinched.
" I touched his shoulder and he flinched.
" I reached for him and he flinched.
" I put my hand on his arm, gingerly, but he flinched.
The two men flinched but nodded again.
The boy flinched a little, closed his eyes again.
His children, and even Farid, flinched.
She saw me first, flinched, spotted Farid and her eyes lit up.
They flinched.
Karim flinched but said nothing.
" I flinched, like I'd been slapped.
I flinched.
Assef flinched.
A young man flinched when someone else's plane clocked him on the side of his head.
