Sentence examples for I quailed from inspiring English sources
I quailed at all three of these statements, viewing them as manipulative attempts to assert worth.
When I realised that the project had grown beyond the bounds of family history and was becoming a novel, I quailed.
I quailed before my father only; and he, generous and noble, but capricious and tyrannical, at once fostered and checked the wild impetuosity of my character, making obedience necessary, but inspiring no respect for the motives which guided his commands.
"It is a beautifully written book and I quail at the idea of adapting it," Hampton said this weekend.
I quail a bit at the French solution, ie, banning all headscarves in all schools, by law.
What, I wonder, quailing slightly before the catalogue of conspiracy, would Jefferson and the Founding Fathers have said about Bush and the neocons?
Pastor cites Judith Butler, the American gender theorist, and I mention how John Ruskin quailed on seeing his wife naked on their wedding night, presumably after spending so much time looking at art history's pube-free parade of sexually commodified nudes.
I watched as he visibly quailed and cowered, then he began to cry.
Sitting at the long dining table on the veranda, I could look down to the beach where they lived, and I often thought of them as I ate quails eggs stuffed with caviar and drank Chateau Lynch-Bages (perhaps a little too young) or the Necker-branded champagne.
