Exempel på 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.

• The consumption of quails' eggs—though by a minority—is very considerable.

• They never quailed at their tasks.

• The long delay between pairing and nesting is unusual for quails.

• All that submission and apparent content lasted but a few days, and they disappeared like young quails.

• The brown quail's wings produce a whistling noise when flushed which is different from the whirring sound produced by the stubble quail's wings.

• Eurasian quails, turtles, goldfish, toads, and beetles help keep the insect population in balance.

• Long-range competition among the neurons projecting centrifugally to the quail retina.