Sentence examples for my quail from inspiring English sources

I made calls to dead phone lines, and replies to my Quail queries arrived days later, and told me alternately "blocked/failed" or "this recipient does not exist".

With the lamenting quality of a Dowland lute air, it presents an intensely personal description of a quail hunt: "At daybreak I took my quail net.

Don't offer me a ballottine of chorizo with my quail breast that tastes not at all of chorizo (and while we're at it, don't misspell fancy words like ballottine on the menu).

In another one of those suspiciously clear and definite memories I see myself there that Monday morning, in those medieval surroundings, at that scarred old olive-wood table, opening a blank, black-jacketed manuscript book and writing on the first page the title Christine Falls, while within me my heart quailed before the task I had set myself.

My faith in quail, more often than not a tough, chewy disappointment, was restored at Town, where the little birds maintain a buttery succulence that makes them just a little firmer than the tiny foie gras fritters that come with them.

Between my search for the quail (which had started at 6 a.m ., my drive back to Álamos and my search for a tire, I was exhausted by the time I checked in.

For a second I think this is my first course – roast quail wrapped with pancetta – but it turns out to be the amuse-bouche.

The target of my search, the elegant quail, occurs only in Mexico from the northern border at Arizona down through the states of Sonora and Sinaloa and into Nayarit.

In our second week of quail ownership, my husband came in from the back yard with the news that Chicken Little, the runt, was dead, his head half-eaten.

· Tom Aikens: Cooking (Ebury Press) Nigel Slater My favourite summer dishes: Quail and rosewater and cardamon ice-cream Nigel Slater is the award-winning cookery writer - and The Observer's much-loved (and down-to-earth) foodie columnist.

He was holding a sign protesting my coming to shoot quail.