No, he was shielding Lord Nick; behind that shield the truth was that the big man had quailed before the small.

" The Germans quailed at the look in his face; and as he moved forward swiftly they threw down their knives and turned to run.

Bel was not the one to lose a battle by appearing to quail in the outset, however clearly she might see herself outnumbered.

" As he spoke, he encountered Esmo's eyes, and quailed under the gaze, sinking back into his seat motionless as the bird under the alleged fascination of the serpent.

" The unfortunate steward quailed beneath the severity of her glance.

Q was a quail With a very short tail; And he fed upon corn In the evening and morn.

I have heard of quail on toast, but I never heard of turkey on newspaper.

I felt it in the quivering of my veins, and my heart that bounded as if it would escape from my breast; but I would not quail from what he did not shrink to utter.

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.

The very elderly, who remembered the worst days of the Collapse, felt their spirits quail within them.

We were lucky enough to shoot several quails of apparently quite a new species.

FOWLS AS FOOD.Brillat Savarin, pre-eminent in gastronomic taste, says that he believes the whole gallinaceous family was made to enrich our larders and furnish our tables; for, from the quail to the turkey, he avers their flesh is a light aliment, full of flavour, and fitted equally well for the invalid as for the man of robust health.

William was a boy of nine at that time, and he remembers that his mother was so grieved that he tried to console her by telling her not to worry "papa's goin' to com' back and bring us some more quails" (he had been accustomed to bringing them quails during his life) but William sorrowingly said "he never did come back.

For instance, if you want to bag lots of Dead Rabbits, TWEED will be the best stuff you can wearespecially about November 8th, on which day you will be certain to find Some Quail about the polling places.