Definition of Quailed

1. Verb. (past of quail#Verb quail) ¹

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Definition of Quailed

1. quail [v] - See also: quail

Lexicographical Neighbors of Quailed

quaigh
quaighs
quail
quail-dove
quail-doves
quail-pipe
quail-pipes
quail at
quail bronchitis virus
quail brush
quail bush
quail dove
quail hawk
quail pipe
quail pipes
quailed (current term)
quailer
quailers
quailest
quaileth
quailies
quailing
quailings
quails
quaily
quainter
quaintest
quaintish
quaintly

Literary usage of Quailed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"Awkward and dumb with delight, that a thought of him had been mingled 70 Stouter hearts than a woman's have quailed in this terrible winter. ..."

2. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers (1835)
"Whatever opinion may be formed regarding the manner of his death, there can be only one regarding its effects ; the Protestant faith, which had quailed ..."

3. A Memoir of Robert C. Winthrop by Robert Charles Winthrop (1897)
"If I ' quailed,' as he says, ' before the slave power,' surely I was an improper person to be intrusted with his ' banner.' Aside from this, it is a figure ..."

4. Memoirs and Correspondence of Major-General Sir William Nott by William Nott, Joachim Hayward Stocqueler (1854)
"... quailed before its effulgence. Rawlinson no longer desired the retention of the 42nd.* * Nott's anxiety to have the 12nd, aud his generous appreciation ..."

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