Dictionary Entry

quail

Part of SpeechverbPronunciation/ˈkweɪl/Used In Literature ↓

To waste away; to fade, to wither

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Poetry examples for “quail”

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And to themselves unknown.
Nor can he quail
In faith, nor flush nor pale

Roaming the fields with Bert Kessler,
Hunting quail and snipe.
At Thompson’s Lake the trigger of my gun

"And this brings back to me a tale
So sad the hearer well may quail,
And question if such things can be;

And stood to tell him what I found.
He knew and said it was a quail's,

*Scandal. J : : : : ; : « 194
*Quail’s Nest . ‘ ; : : : : . 194
*Market Day . ; : : : : : . 194

And his clear laugh fled ringing through the gloom,
And his mirth quail'd not at the mild reproof
Sigh'd out by winter's sad tranquillity;

To charm the happy-hearted boy.
The quail turned out her timid broods;
The prickly copse, a hostess fine,

Rests the full splendour of his sacred fame:
Nor he who dared make the foul tyrant quail _5
Amid his cowering senate with thy name,

To show th' obedience of the Infant muse.
She knows the Quail of most inviting taste
Fed Israel's army in the dreary waste;

The body where he sets his heel
Quail from your downward darting kiss.