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quail

[kweyl] / kweɪl /


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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

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

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

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

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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