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Manufacturing, which has quailed in the face of higher interest rates and a slowdown in goods consumption, has been essentially level since the beginning of the year.

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2023

Many a great statesman has quailed before the ringer of scorn of a fellow-Congressman, and has been completely cowed by a hiss from the gallery or a ridiculing paragraph in a newspaper.

From How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune by Marden, Orison Swett

She has gone forth like a warrior With pricking glaive and spear, And Grief has quailed in his ambush When her flashing arms drew near.

From Two Fishers, and Other Poems by Palmer, Herbert Edward

Many a champion has quailed before my very glance.

From Hereward, the Last of the English by Kingsley, Charles