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Definition of the day : « quail »

  • verb cower, shrink
Example sentences :
  • 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