Examples of quail

• I named quince and quails, and they were the only ones which the author of the competition had thought of either.

• I am pleased that some train operators have not quailed at the technical obstacles that make it difficult to carry cycles on trains.

• I suppose one quails at the cost of infinite fragmentation.

• I understand that his agricultural experience consists in his constituents fattening quails.

• Little wonder that most local authorities are already quailing at the task that lies ahead.

• We all remember the days of the county clerk who quailed councillors.

• They very seldom come here, but in recent years a trade has grown up of importing these quails in large numbers alive.

• Quails might escape from a farm but, we understand, would not be able to survive outside it.