balking

A frustration or disappointment; a check.

This supernatural world is the world of fulfilled desire, the world where the balkings, the trials and tribulations, the sorrows and the sins are no more, and where life is as the personality would have it […]

That balks.

For these, the ground chosen was especially hard and slippery, and in bad condition; and to add to this, the wind, which blew the lath about, was very balking to the competitors.

Here was a very balking answer, but in spite of it, Harold could not help believing that Esther was very far from objecting to the sort of incense he had been offering just then.

That balks.

If there have not been the means to learn, if one knows nothing on a subject, to pretend or try to sympathize is more balking than to give it up.

"Forgive our debts as we also forgive," Goes like a quick and penetrating blade Between the inmost spirit and the soul, —Between the joints and marrow of the bones And shows the thoughts and feelings of the heart. One feels that even more than pardoned sin, He needs a likeness to a pardoning God. The hardness of this very balking prayer Is here perceived to be its noblest part .

That balks.

Nowhere else is the mean or unreliable horse so utterly unendurable, even for a day, as about a circus. The balking brute may throw a parade into confusion or cause the most exasperating delay in loading a train.

Before this occurrence taught me the better way, I was quite prone, in dealing with a balking boy, to hold his mind upon the subject of balking.

That balks.

These large discrepancies must stem from inconsistencies in interpretation rather than the possibility that one crew was constantly drawing more balking pitchers than another.

Yes, I'm saying umpire shouldn't even make a balk call unless there is evidence that the balking player was deliberately trying to deceive the opposition.