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Her spirit is great enough to put self entirely aside except at moments of the greatest intimacy and importance�the very moments when an inferior nature would have quailed ox bridled.

From Time Magazine Archive

Occupants of Manhattan's Empire State Building, world's tallest structure, have quailed many times at a brilliant bolt of lightning accompanied by an immediate clap of thunder.

From Time Magazine Archive

A lesser man might have quailed before the problem of making such a reckoning.

From Time Magazine Archive

If Sam could have seen him and known the grief that his escape would bring, he might have quailed.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

A braver man than Vernon Dursley would have quailed under the furious look Hagrid now gave him; when Hagrid spoke, his every syllable trembled with rage.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling