Let not search andinquisitionquail To bring again these foolish runaways.
The name is applied to other small hawks, as the European kestrel and the New Zealand quail hawk.
A prostitute; -- so called because the quailwas thought to be a very amorous bird.
It is pleasant to crack quail eggs between the teeth, or to rip the roe out of a fresh-caught shad with your forefinger and just let it melt in your mouth.
There they eased his wounds with pleasant greases, and dressed him in softest buckskin, and gave him just as much food as it was safe for him to eat--a couple of quail eggs and a little dish of corn and freshwater mussels baked.
But Halley's soul began to pine for higher things, for bigger game than quail and duck.
Put your quail on top, and send them to the oven for twenty minutes.
Grouse, partridges, and quail may be larded in the same manner.
Pretty soon you so strong I have to broil five--six--seven quail a day and still you hungry!
He had eaten it with his bread, his porridge, his dessert, and with the quail that Firio had broiled.
He leaned on the windowsill, his black eyes shining with ingenuous and flattering appeal: "I will broil you a quail on a spit," he whispered.
By walking through the terraced fields at those times with a gun, considerable bags of quail can be secured.
The only quailcommonly seen on the Nilgiris is the painted bush-quail (Microperdix erythrorhynchus).
The grey quail (Coturnix communis) is a common bird of the Himalayas during a few days only in the year.
Together they cleave down the ranks of the enemy, until like sheep they quail before these stalwart Saxons.
Illustration] The crested quail that troop in the Ceriso are the happiest frequenters of the water trails.
Twice a year, in the time of white butterflies and again when young quail ran neck and neck in the chaparral, Seyavi cut willows for basketry by the creek where it wound toward the river against the sun and sucking winds.
He used no gun, but he would set snares by the water-holes for quail and doves, and in the trout country he carried a line.
In this pattern she had made cooking pots in the golden spring of her wedding year, when the quail went up two and two to their resting places about the foot of Oppapago.
The first year quail mated sparingly; the second year the wild oats matured no seed; the third, cattle died in their tracks with their heads towards the stopped watercourses.
The huts are squat and brown and chimneyless, facing east, and the inhabitants have the faculty of quail for making themselves scarce in the underbrush at the approach of strangers.
At this time when the peppers glow in the gardens and the young quailcry “cuidado,” “have a care!
Fish-traps and long narrow basket-traps for quail are also made out of this willow-work.
His equally shy neighbor is the mountain-quail, while through the farming lands and all along the hillsides the valley--quail are plenty.
Papa quail has a black crest on his head, and he calls "Look right here" from the wrong side of the road to fool you, while Mamma and her little, cunning chicks scatter like flying brown leaves in the brush.
When he had taken his position, his faded butternut clothing matched the earth as inconspicuously as a quail matches dead leaves, and he settled himself to wait.
Scattered quail came together in the conclave of the covey, and changed their summer call for the "hover" whistle.
The man took a small stone jar from a shelf and putting in a little water, took the half-cooked quail from the fire, and putting it in the jar set it on the coals among the ashes, and covered it.
He lifted his head with a jerk, and swung the quail away from the heat, leaving it still suspended, and taking his rifle from its pegs stood for a moment in his door listening.
He devoured the meat of the little quail left in the jar and drank the few remaining drops of broth, then crawled out to look after the needs of his horse before making further search for food for himself.
Then he removed the jar containing the quail and broth from the embers, and set it aside in reserve for his guest.
As to the transformation of Asteria into a quail see Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, i.
According to another account Iolaus burnt a quail alive, and the dead hero, who loved quails, came to life again through the savoury smell of the roasted bird.
Little Brown Hands They drive home the cows from the pasture, Up through the long shady lane, Where the quail whistles loud in the wheat-fields, That are yellow with ripening grain.
And when the winter is over, The boughs will get new leaves, The quailcome back to the clover, And the swallow back to the eaves.
That day I did not hate Nor doubt, nor quail nor curse.
You seem not one to quail at the sight of an enemy.
No breath of wind stirred over the drowsing fields, from which arose the calls of quailand the notes of meadowlarks.
Quail abounded in this vicinity, and there were pas mal de sangliers.
His eyes did not quail as he made this statement, though he knew that she was searching them keenly.
The courage which would not quail on the battle-field will fail before a secret and unknown evil.
Quail pass through Egypt when on their way to their more northerly breeding quarters early in March and April.
The numbers of Quail which must migrate passes belief, for it is recorded that in Coronation Year five million were ordered and supplied for the English market alone.
The call of the male Quail is one of those strange sounds that have around it much of the halo that the song of the Cuckoo has at home, because it marks a definite date--the passing of winter and the coming of summer.
The poor Quail are also caught in large numbers by a drop-net whilst on passage down the river, in clover, or any other suitable crop, the fowler calling them up to his net by a reed whistle.
Quail shooting used to be a more favourite sport than it is now since Denshawie days, and two guns have on one occasion obtained 252 birds in the day at Ayat, fifty miles south of Cairo.
Each one for himself [Illustration: QUAIL Flying over growing corn.
The owner of the losing quail was a trooper in the Maharaja's army.
The defeat of his quailhad vexed him, and he desired the Sahib to understand that the sowars of His Highness's army could ride.
And while the shooting along the Mediterranean in winter is very fair for the red-legged partridge, migratory quail and snipe, it is not to be compared with the shooting to be had in Florida, either for abundance or variety of game.
In the Rigvedas, the Acvinau deliver the quail from torments; they release the quail from the rage of the wolf; they liberate it from the jaws of the wolf that is devouring it.
Jove becomes an eagle to catch her; the gods change the quail into a stone--(cfr.
It is believed that when the moon rises, the quail cries out and is excited to agitation against it, and that the quail's head increases or diminishes according to the moon's influence.
In the forty-first story of the sixth book of Afanassieff, the wise girl comes upon a hare with a quail tied to her hand, and presents herself before the Tzar, whose riddle she must solve in order to marry him.
From these mythical relations of the quail was doubtless derived the fear which the ancients had for the quail, which they believed to eat poisonous hellebore during the night, and to be therefore poisonous and subject to epilepsy.
As the quail seems to represent the sun, and loves heat, it fears the cold moon.
The quail arrives with the sun in our fields in spring, and goes away with the sun in September.
The quail is also in intimate relation with the summer sun, but especially with the moon.
This quail may represent either the red sky of evening, in the west, or the red heavens at the conclusion of summer.
In size this quail is not larger than a young guinea fowl that has just broken the shell.
It was another step towards Saul's recovery when his soul achieved the harmony of a quail and a jerboa.
It made the people in the village below quail and cry out that the day of judgment had come upon them: it made Leam at last forget her sorrow and quail in her solitude as if her day of judgment too had come upon her.
