But I sate quailing with an anguished fear, Lest beauty might procure me nought but pain, Till He that rules the issue of all strife, Gave fortunate end--if fortunate!
So will they speak; and while my quailing heart Shall sink beneath its burden, clouds of shame Will dim thy glory and degrade thy race.
This may plant courage in their quailing breasts, For yet is hope of life and victory.
One must believe it the outcome of the disposition and character of the bird, of some refinement of feeling; just as the raucous call of the English pheasant expresses grossness and density, and the quailing of the hawk pure savagery.
Vernon, quailing beneath the indignant glance of abhorrence which the royal widow fixed upon him.
This may plant courage in theirquailing breasts, For yet is hope of Life and Victory: Foreslow no longer, make we hence amaine.
George Alden was a brave man, never quailing at danger, but when he thought of his humiliation he moaned in agony of spirit.
Think you how his bow must rouse the echoes, Quailing triumphing on, secure, sublime!
Blaring and triumphing now, Now quailing and lone, Thou, thou, thou Of the joys unknown!
Captain Brand must come instantly," cried Margaret, and turned sharply upon thequailing ambassador.
St. Udo, chatting carelessly to his inferior officer, turned suddenly in his saddle to look for Thoms, and met his quailing eyes scarce two yards behind.
Does not his quailing eye speak of a vile history, of which he is such a coward as to fear the exposure?
The hero by the hair was dragging her From her swift steed, with fierce resolve to wrest With his strong hands the Girdle Marvellous From the Amazon Queen, while quailing shrank away The Maids of War.
Butsey, who had reasons of his own for quailing before it.
It was a hang-dog crowd that gathered there, quailing under the scornful lashing of Garry Cockrell.
France, however, had suffered too long at the hands of that race of men, and I had been too lately vilified by them to feel much pity; and for answer I lifted a voice that to the quailing wretch must have been the voice of doom.
Here, your excellency," the boy answered, quailing a little.
Quailing beneath his rebuffs, she flung herself at his feet, imploring him with tears to grant her only request--to remember her, and to pray for her.
Erect and unbending she stood before them, and the quailing miscreant crouched at her feet.
Every heart seemed quailing with some hidden fear; nor could any means at that moment be suggested for their emancipation.
The boldest of the French officers rushed to the front to inspire the quailing souls of their countrymen.
The fight was a close one, but the Highlanders captured redoubt after redoubt, chasing the quailing enemy from the field in grand style.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quailing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
