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Definition of the day : « quail »
- verb cower, shrink
- She signed to the Seven, and they came huddling to her like quail; she put them behind her.
- Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin
- Quail ran in droves and rose among the mesas like young thunder.
- Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin
- Out in the back-pasture, a quail could flutter up under his nose unharmed.
- Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
- The plant comes from an egg, which is about the size of a quail's egg.
- Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
- Here is a task before which we quail in this generation of vast vistas.
- Extract from : « College Teaching » by Paul Klapper
- If I start or quail before you, may she never again be mine!
- Extract from : « The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 » by Various
- Her face was very pale, but perfectly still, and her eyes did not quail.
- Extract from : « David Elginbrod » by George MacDonald
- The owl went to the quail and said, "Will you let me have one of your children to come and live with me?"
- Extract from : « The Book of Nature Myths » by Florence Holbrook
- The owl crept up to the quail's home as softly as she could.
- Extract from : « The Book of Nature Myths » by Florence Holbrook
- Hereafter, you will see that I'll not quail in the face of the most deadly dangers.
- Extract from : « Frank Merriwell Down South » by Burt L. Standish