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unquailing

  • a word derived from quail.
    quail
    noun
    any of numerous gallinaceous birds, order Galliformes, classified as either Old World quails, within the pheasant family (Phasinidae), especially the genus Coturnix, or the distantly related New World quails, comprising their own family (Odontophoridae), including the genera Colinus, Callipepla, and Odontophorus : among the most familiar true quails are the Old World king quail and the New World bobwhite.

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General Grant, with his unquailing resolution "to fight it out on this line," had cut his way through the Wilderness over the bloody field of Spotsylvania, and against the deadly lines of Cold Harbor.

From Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine

From the summit of the mountain he had appeared to Munzer in the midst of lightnings, but those lightnings did not alarm his adversary, who was bold enough to face him with unquailing eye.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 by Rossiter Johnson

The same unquailing courage, and the same calm, grim fortitude which shed their fadeless lustre upon his whole extraordinary career were evinced by General Grant at the last moments of his life.

From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3 by Various

He doth not know, Nor can, the bliss of being brave Who never hath faced death, nor with unquailing eye Hath measured his own grave.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various

There was a commanding light in the unquailing eyes and these men who knew few celebrities from the world without, knew both his name and his record.

From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck

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