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quail

[kwayl] / kweɪl /


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Manchester Farms’ butterflied quail is another fun protein to add to your grilling repertoire.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

The author is a freelancer and storyteller who lives in Glassell Park with her husband, two dogs and four quail.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

RZSS, which runs a wildlife park nearby, used cage-type traps baited with venison and quail, a small game bird, to capture the cats.

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2025

A quail on the Mexican side called back, triggering a back-and-forth soundtrack that was both fitting and heartbreaking in an ecosystem split by an artificial barrier.

From Seattle Times ● May 18, 2024

She finishes her entree of scallops too quickly, sits for a very long time, it seems, watching Nikhil work his way through his quail.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Depre raises around 17,500 free-range hens and 70,000 quails in sheds with outdoor runs.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

Here you can chase hummingbirds, roam through the never-crowded garden and “visit Stoneview’s resident quails, which have their own fenced-in compound called, ‘Quallywood,’” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026

The tinned dishes included typical Mediterranean ingredients, such as olives, tomatoes, quails and swordfish.

From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2024

For the most part, scientists have studied aspects of procreation in space only in animals, including fruit flies, frogs, newts, geckos, aquatic crustaceans, quails, rats, mice and, intriguingly, rams.

From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2023

We traverse fields and forests, walk through barren lands where quails and woodcocks fly up at our feet, and, after twelve miles of bushwhacking, enter the Plattekill State Forest.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

My heart quailed at the idea of sharing a roof with her again, all of us swept up in the tornado vortex of her illness.

From Slate ● Mar. 14, 2022

Naturally Helberg quailed at the thought of taking on Jimmy Stewart’s iconic role?

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2018

Some of the starkest images of the extremism that gained ground in the 1930s as democracies quailed came from German artists themselves.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 4, 2017

No, wait: She quailed at confronting the Islamic State.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2016

“Should we be frightened of Hizdahr zo Loraq? You saw him just now. He quailed before the Yunkishmen. They sent him a head, and he did nothing.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

It wasn’t so long ago that book publishers and bookstore owners were quailing about the coming of ebooks, like movie theater owners at the dawn of the television age.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2022

He has been a quailing, simpering paragon of mediocrity.

From Washington Post ● May 10, 2021

Instead, lawmakers, quailing at the union’s opposition, decided only that civilians may be included on the boards — which, in practice, is unlikely to happen.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 10, 2016

His three quailing sons, his disspirited wife, even the ants in his garden.

From Time Magazine Archive

But quailing at the thought of Strauss’s certain apoplexy at his withdrawal, he chose to put off the uncomfortable conversation until the last minute.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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