quail
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Ellen Dinsmoor is chief operating officer of Vow, a Sydney-based firm that sells cultivated Japanese quail products in Japan.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2025
Under the ticking clock, the chefs wrestle with dishes like tournedos aux morilles and quail with cherries.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2024
He loved to hunt and cook, sometimes combining the two passions at the fire station by serving quail enchiladas, the poultry fresh from a recent hunt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2024
A quail on the Mexican side called back, triggering a back-and-forth soundtrack that was both fitting and heartbreaking in an ecosystem split by an artificial barrier.
From Seattle Times ● May 18, 2024
Some of the most upsetting news for southern sportsmen concerned the bobwhite quail.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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Depre raises around 17,500 free-range hens and 70,000 quails in sheds with outdoor runs.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
Here you can chase hummingbirds, roam through the never-crowded garden and “visit Stoneview’s resident quails, which have their own fenced-in compound called, ‘Quallywood,’” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026
The tinned dishes included typical Mediterranean ingredients, such as olives, tomatoes, quails and swordfish.
From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2024
Plump quails and miniature foxes unique to the island scurry across the dirt roads that wind through scrubby hillsides.
From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2023
There was so much bobbing and grinning and nodding up and down, they looked like a covey of quails.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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My heart quailed at the idea of sharing a roof with her again, all of us swept up in the tornado vortex of her illness.
From Slate ● Mar. 14, 2022
Naturally Helberg quailed at the thought of taking on Jimmy Stewart’s iconic role?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2018
No, wait: She quailed at confronting the Islamic State.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2016
Unfazed by civil disobedience and its consequences, Father Castle quailed at the prospect of kissing Joanne Woodward, who played his wife, Mr. Demme later said.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2012
As the forest’s warning became louder, more plangent and strident, William’s buoyant mood shivered, quailed, and fled like a routed army from the field.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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It wasn’t so long ago that book publishers and bookstore owners were quailing about the coming of ebooks, like movie theater owners at the dawn of the television age.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2022
He has been a quailing, simpering paragon of mediocrity.
From Washington Post ● May 10, 2021
Instead, lawmakers, quailing at the union’s opposition, decided only that civilians may be included on the boards — which, in practice, is unlikely to happen.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 10, 2016
His three quailing sons, his disspirited wife, even the ants in his garden.
From Time Magazine Archive
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No quailing, no clinging there, not in those capes and rough tweeds, those boots that came to the knee.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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