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How to use quailed in a sentence

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Sentence Examples
Had he not been trying to keep a brave front, Damien may have quailed beneath the glare his leader.
I admit that I quailed ever so slightly at the prospect of actually going to the top.
I quailed at the prospect, but soon saw in it a stimulating, even noble challenge.
So I stayed there, and the cat joined me, and we quailed and quaked and waited for it to stop.
This is the supreme test and England have quailed at the very thought of it.
Despite their name, quarry tiles are made, not quailed, from a mixture of natural ingredients including clay and shale.
I quailed at the thought of a long train journey with a small baby.
In 1938, as Austria's leaders quailed before the Anschluss, the Habsburgs' scion offered to return and rally resistance.
Even a substantial and resilient figure would have quailed in such a situation.
In the 1930s, when they anticipated that cost, many politicians quailed.
So great is the weight of expectation and reputation they bring before them, lesser bands have quailed at the prospect of appearing alongside the mighty Travis.
Even General Pinochet quailed at taking on medical unions.
And when we had got free, and gazed around on the wreckish results the stoutest of us quailed.
Though Mr Paisley denies that this prompted him to quit, he may well have quailed at the prospect of carrying on without that discreet daily support.
Bureaucrats quailed, telling him that he was liable for half the money.
Others quailed at the hands of the East German secret police, the Stasi.
A wife whose husband exchanged the cornfield for a battlefield must have quailed at every birdcall and soughing wind, sure that they signaled an attack.
Ironically, too, the wine was a yeared Bollinger of almost carnal subtlety and while Sutcliffe's stomach quailed his palate hungered for the treat.
Examples from Classical Literature
Even a bashi-bazouk must have quailed before that amazing declaration and that patient resignation to fate.
She wondered what stuff he was made of, to be so dashed and quailed by a dream.
The court was thrown into amazement, and even bumptious quailed before the fist of the mighty Jorrocks.
Father Hennepin tells us that the stout soul of La Salle quailed before the horrible tumult which threatened to engulf him.
My son hasnt a cent, repeated Mr. Seaver, but he must have quailed under the awful look Molly tells me your aunt gave him at this.
You may fancy how Esther quailed at this new feature of the meeting between her two idols.
Mr. Foss quailed at the challenge and relapsed into moody silence.
He evidently quailed under his jokes, and sat blinking like an owl in daylight, when pestered by the flouts and peckings of mischievous birds.
He thought she quailed the least bit before his searching look.
The other looked into his eyes and quailed, but blustered to the end.
Yet, to say truth, her high spirit quailed when she re-entered the spital.
She used to like Tris, but these few months her love has all quailed away.
He saw accusing and angry faces on all sides, and he quailed and trembled.
Aminta quailed, and Henri, who saw her tremble, hurried to sustain her.
One of them in particular, who appeared to be the highest in rank, placed himself directly facing me, looking at me with a rigidity of aspect under which I absolutely quailed.
The three mates quailed before his strong, sustained, and mystic aspect.
The painted lady who always came in late, tripping into the room with a prepared smile as though she came out upon a stage, might well have quailed before Mrs.
When he saw Hughes bending over with pain, his courage quailed.
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