Huss says fiercely, "I gave you three weeks to find out why your books don't balance, and to prove that you are not a defaulter; the time is up--find me the missing property or you go to prison as a thief." Bookkeeper: "I have found it." "Where?" Bookkeeper (sternly--tragically): "In the bridegroom's pile!--behold the thief--see himblench and tremble!"

Dost thou think that I, who have seen a town sacked, in which thousands of my Christian countrymen perished by sword, by flood, and by fire, willblench from my purpose for the outcries or screams of one single wretched Jew?

Blench (for I was in a fever), who gave me a composing draught and left orders with Finette that I should be disturbed ON NO ACCOUNT.

He, however,blenched not a step, but glancing his severe eye round the group, which half encompassed him, at last bent it sternly on Sir Edmund Andros.

As if by inspiration, she grasped the other's band with a force whichblenched the knuckles.

OEDIPUS Words scare not him whoblenches not at deeds.

Heblenched, and partially rose, unable to conceal his dismay.

These pastoral communities have shaped different pastoral systems for their livelihoods in different pastoral regions of the world, where they provide about 10% of the total meat production for human consumption and make a livelihood for 200 million pastoralists (Blench 2001; Hobbs et al.

(15) RBlench, "Working Paper: Background Conditions in Upper

Blench, Traditional Livestock Breeds: Physical Distribution and Dynamics in Relation to Ecology of West Africa, Portland House London WP, Portland House London WP 122,1-69,1999.