Significados de quailing under en inglés

I remember quailing under the unfamiliar glare of disapproval: You too, Annie?

A keening wail lifted all around, the dark inhabitants quailing under the revelation of light.

He went, quailing under the flash of her indignant eye, which made his guilty soul cower in abasement.

"How much?" repeated Hiram, quailing under the honest but sharp look of the hunter; "the informer gets half, I- Ibelieve-yes, Iguessit's half.