quail

How to use quail in a sentence

In other words, there’s a reason for this research being done and being done in this way that a photo of a quail snorting a line fails to capture.

And the quail, perched on the fence-stake, would she address herself to us or to Mr. Robert White down in the meadow?

And he came a step still nearer; and now at last Mary began to dread, but still she did not quail.

GOD WILLS IT!WILLIAM STEARNS DAVIS

A lugubrious quail doled forth a grating, dismal note at long but measured intervals, offending the ear and depressing the heart.

From the grass nine Indians arose, stooped, and scuttled off like a covey of running quail.

The whistle of the quail and the flutter of the perdiz, or pheasant, are heard on all sides in the rural and mountain regions.

The fish in the rivers, the quail in the stubble, the deer in the forest, have been protected.

Now and then a rabbit bounded lightly by him, or a quail ran into the bushes.

He said it was a kind of quail, a bird that reposes near Messina when migrating.

CASTELLINARIAHENRY FESTING JONES

He had ruled that timid, trusting girl too long and too imperiously to quail before her disembodied spirit.

SWORD AND GOWNGEORGE A. LAWRENCE

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JUNE 24, 2021

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