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