was quailing

• past progressive

  past progressive

  Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.

  of 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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was quailing

Her heart was quailing already at her temerity.

From The Revellers by Louis Tracy

The Phantom stepped out with a jaunty appearance, though inwardly he was quailing a trifle.

From The Gray Phantom's Return by Herman Landon

But already the evangelist was quailing before the Rabbi.

From Rabbi Saunderson by Ian Maclaren

"Then you don't believe in assurance?" but already the evangelist was quailing before the Rabbi.

From Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers by Ian Maclaren

As he was wandering about the country, uncertain whither to betake himself, he unexpectedly fell in with the very enemy before whom Montauban was quailing.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Henry Martyn Baird

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