Anticipate with dread or anxiety.
1 You seem not one to quail at the sight of an enemy.
2 They quail at the thought of another campaign to supersede the last one.
3 The average shot-gun will kill quail at sixty yards and duck at forty.
4 What is known as quail at the North is called partridge at the South.
5 His own folk quail at him, and they would slay themselves at his bidding.'
6 Dost thou quail at the frown on his lifelike brow?
7 How tyrants must quail at the contemplation of this festival!
8 Honor managed - barely - not to quail at her exec's astringent tone.
9 Do not you quail at the thought of the danger to which you exposed yourself?
10 If a man were made of gutta-percha, his heart would quail at such a moment.
11 And Clark was coming, for he was not the man to quail at such a crisis.
12 I believe it is because I am inclined to brave destiny, not to quail at it.
13 I'm not hungry, and if I were I'd eat something besides quail at twelve dollars a dozen.
14 You remember those quail at the water-hole?
15 The bailiff turned and looked at Prunes, who appeared to quail at the prospect of entering the cave.
16 Yet all these you might have witnessed unharmed; for all these would quail at the terror of my brow.
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