Sentence examples for quails from inspiring English sources
verb
Third person singular of quail
This is despite hundreds of thousands of hens dying every month, to say nothing of infected cats, quails, pigs and ducks.
On a recent visit, Guy Warner's grocery shop in Moreton-in-Marsh Moreton-in-Marsh Moreton-in-Marshrominentheispriceyf quails' eggs and asparagus.
The remaining gruiform families inhabit more-open country: the seriemas (or cariamas) of South America favour grassland or hot dusty plains with scattered bushes; the Old World bustards, button quails, and the plains wanderer prefer open, grassy plains, although they will accept old pastures and cultivated fields.
Of the ground nesters, button quails nest in a grass-lined hollow, often building a domed roof and side entrance.
The length of the tail varies, being proportionately short in button quails, rails, and trumpeters and rather long in mesites, finfoots, and the sun bittern.
The esophagus is similarly used in sound production by the button quails and by rails of the genus Sarothrura.
In the two restaurants, with outdoor seats under shade, I ate delicious Moroccan/French dishes, such as spiced quail with herbs from the garden.
I still dream about the sultry duck liver mousse with almond biscuits; the 'State Bird' – a quail – grilled into smokiness on its bed of gently pickled, sautéed onions and crowned with Parmesan; the smoked duck ham with umeboshi.
Spring hunting is banned by the EU but the Maltese authorities obtain a exemption each year, enabling its 9,798 hunters to shoot 5,000 quail and 11,000 turtle doves, the latter a migratory bird whose British population has slumped by 95% since 1970.
I can skin a wild pig or snake, and pluck a quail.
At the launch of his Imperia vodka under the Statue of Liberty three years ago, Tariko hosted 1,600 guests, feeding them with black caviar, suckling pig and quail's eggs.
