She fixed upon him that look from which he had so often shrunk before, and again he quailed beneath it.
Esca gazed on her with a fond astonishment; and John of Gischala quailed where he stood, as he thought of his noble enemy, and the hereditary courage he had done more wisely not to have driven to despair.
There was something ludicrous in the manner in which he now quailedbefore Hippias, eyeing him with the same sort of imploring glance that a dog casts at his master, and obviously persuaded of the speedy fulfilment of his threat.
So intent was her gaze that his eyes quailedbeneath it.
No doubt there would be scenes,--and his heart quailed as he remembered certain glances which had flashed upon him from the eyes of Mrs. O'Hara.
I own I quailed when I heard his first words from the threshold, but that was when he accused me of what I have done.
The oath I took by that bedside this evening was my swearing into the army of the everlasting damned, and no one shall ever say I quailed or I faltered.
In every place where the Spaniard set foot the native quailed and, after at most one desperate struggle, went down, never again to loose the conqueror's grip from his throat or to move the conqueror's knee from his chest.
This beast could bear witness that Etienne Gerard had died as he had lived, and that one prisoner at least had not quailed before him.
The strong men quailed at the fate which seemed staring them in the face, and they were on the point of giving up in despair.
Back, with a howl of disappointment and dismay, theyquailed from before the advancing foe, and as suddenly as they had appeared, vanished again in the somber shadows of the marsh.
How we hated that cry, and quailed when we heard it!
I felt sure at that moment he had meant what he threatened yesterday, and my heartquailed within me at the prospect.
Margaret never accepted defeat; she quailed not, but off she went with her little son, who was never parted from her side, to Yorkshire and the North.
Received with every mark of discourtesy, the heart of the chivalrous young Prince must have quailed as he stood before the arch-enemy of his house, but he had very little time for reflection.
The Lean Man quailedfor a moment, as he had quailed when Nanny Witherlee told him how he had crossed Barguest on the Marsh threshold.
And so the brave spirit that had not quailed before Goliath, and that had met the Philistines in so many terrific encounters, now quailed before a phantom of its own devising, and shrank from what, at the moment, was only an imaginary danger.
The biggest fellows quailedbefore him when he took on in a rampage, and none of them dared sin when he war by.
Cuchillo quailedunder this terrible irony, but made no reply.
Mine art requires it," said the painter with a ghastly smile; but in that smile was an expression so fearful, yet mysterious, that even De Vessey quailed before it.
When I led the Pannonian legions to victory; when Rome opened her gates at my command; when I fought my way through blood to the throne,--I quailed not then!
When this speech was translated to him Sinan quailed a little.
Lozelle quailed before his fierce eyes, for well he knew Hassan, and knew also that if it came to fighting his sailors were no match for the emir and his picked Saracens.
But in the midst of all this, a new power has arisen in the world, and standing with face to the east, has drawn a sword, before the circle of which even the spectral shadow of cholera has quailed and gone back!
Once more she quailed before the blue mica of his eye.
Cosimo quailed inwardly, nor could he, in the face of Amory's earnestness, dissemble his quailing with a laugh.
It is not to be wondered at if the girls' hearts quailed at the sight.
A soldier who took part in that glorious but terrible retreat from Mons confessed afterwards that his spirit quailed once, and that was when he read the route names on a London suburban omnibus lying disabled and abandoned by the roadside.
The genius of the untutored, inexperienced youth quailed before that of the long-practised, skilful man of the world.
Had I not quailed then I think I should have--'had him'.
Frank's heartquailed for a moment, but only for a moment.
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