Far away in the fields I heard the quails whistling to each other.
I was so mad that I sweat great drops of pure buttermilk, but over in the fields the quails whistled just as clear and sweet as ever, and I heard the wind pouring through the stubble as it always does in autumn!
In the spring the quails come in from the west, and one September morning I went out into the standing oat-crops with two other guns, each one of us attended by a little Kaffir lad to retrieve the birds.
You have challenged me and now your coward soul quails before the issue!
My soul half sinks beneath the mighty burden I have heaped upon it, it quails before the fatal issue.
So it came to pass in the evening, that quails coming up, covered the camp: and in the morning a dew lay round about the camp.
Exodus Chapter 16 The people murmur for want of meat: God giveth them quails and manna.
And how sweetly the lark sang as it soared tremblingly upward, and the quails whistled and linnets twittered.
Two or three quails called and answered each other across the plain.
There are heaps of partridges and quails in this part of the country.
We came on elephants to this place, careering wildly over the country, that the gentlemen might shoot; there never was anything like the tribes of quails and partridges, but it is very difficult to shoot them from an elephant.
Maral is a golden box, in the golden box is a silver box, in the silver box are seven quails, the head of one of the quails is golden and its tail silver; that quail is Tash Kan's soul.
The hero of the story gets possession of the seven quails and wrings the necks of six of them.
Before the measuring-tape the proudest tree of them all quails and shrinks into itself.
The rust has attacked the fields which promised the fairest, and they are left unreaped, to feed the quails and the prairie-hens.
Medad's prophecy was as follows: "Quails will come from the sea and will cover the camp of Israel, but they will bring evil to the people.
On August 17th this year we found a nest containing five young quails about half-grown.
Quails are rather partial to this district; during the first fortnight of September a few are generally shot on the manor we frequent.
He had been catching quails between the place where we saw him and the statues; he was to deliver three dozen to your son this afternoon for the Mayor's banquet on Sunday.
The Professors must contribute as follows: They must swear that the prisoner is not the man they met with quails in his possession on Thursday night.
The abundance of these quails surprised him, for he did not remember them as plentiful anywhere on the Erewhonian side of the mountains.
Quick as thought my father answered, "The Head Ranger sent me a message this morning to deliver him three dozen quails at Sunchildston by to-morrow afternoon.
As for the dress, we can run the quails down quicker in it, and he says nothing to us so long as we only wear out old clothes and put on our uniforms before we near the town.
Philosophers are like quails in the respect that they can take two or three flights of imagination, but rarely more without an interval of repose.
And how about thequails he had so innocently killed?
The one in which the quails were confined stood on the outskirts of the quarters, and Bob, who had taken particular pains to mark the building, so that he would know it again, had no difficulty in finding it.
His plan was to make sure that Bob and his friend had come there to force an entrance into the cabin in which the quails were confined, and if he found that that was their object, he would make a pretence of setting Bose upon them.
He told his brother and David to make haste and put thequails into the cabin; and when that was done and they came into the shop, he set them at work on the coops.
You run no risk whatever, for the man can't get the quails until your bill is paid.
You see they had an awful hard winter up there last year, and the quails were all killed off.
The best thing we can do is to set our own traps and catch the quails as fast as we can.
If there had been any quails in it they would have uttered their notes of alarm as soon as they heard the wagon coming.
Dave Evans hasn't given up trapping thequails after all.
I am aware of that fact," said the General, "but couldn't they be used to carry quails in?
They found some of their traps just as they had left them; a few had been thrown by ground squirrels or red-birds; and from the others they took enough quails to make their day's catch amount to a little over four dozen.
He wants the quailsleft here, so that he can shoot them over his dog," continued David.
It stopped in front of one of the cabins, and Don and Bert began the work of transferring the quails from the coop to the building in which they were to remain until they were sent up the river.
Don is assisting in shipping quails out of the country, and the first thing he knows the dog will be of no use to him.
I joy because the quails come; would not joy Could I bring quails here when I have a mind: This Quiet, all it hath a mind to, doth.
Maketh his teeth meet through his upper lip, Will let those quails fly, will not eat this month One little mess of whelks, so he may 'scape!
The quails were driven up into this, and the meshes of it were of such a size that, though they could get their heads through, their wings became hopelessly entangled, and they fell an easy prey to the fowlers.
The male quails were then kept in little string or wicker baskets for the great quail fights, which were one of the chief excitements and pastimes of the village.
Still the manna fell with the dew at night, and the people gathered it in the morning, and when they tired of it, the Lord sent them quails again.
A barley soup we had, then winter squash and a roast wild duck, with little quails all 'round, and a dish of pepper-cresses.
According to Artemidoros, quails announced to their feeders the evils by which they would be visited from the side of the sea.
This year, my quails cried out six times; and the corn in Italy is very dear, the spring having been a very rainy one.
In the same way as the ancients used to make quails fight against each other, so they made cocks; hence the cock was called son of Mars (Areos neottos).
Clean the quails and wash out very carefully with cold water in which been dissolved a little soda.
If you like, you may add a glass of claret and a table-spoonful of currant jelly to the gravy after the quails are taken up.
The voices of the quails and landrails lulled her to sleep.
Landrails called in the meadows, and quails in the steppes; at times certain strange and distant cries of birds or beasts of the night came to them.
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