will quail
- future tense of quail.
Example Sentences
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Bid them be brave;—they will be brave for you; bid them be cowards, and how noble soever they be, they will quail for you.
From Almost a Woman by Wood-Allen, Mary
Fond vows may yet prevail, Fierce love bears well a woman's cruelty, Nor at the lash will quail.
From The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse by Williams, Theodore C.
A man who may laugh at snakes will quail before roosters.
From A Strange Discovery by Dake, Charles Romyn
The trader will quail Over ledgers unsquared—and accounts overdue: And his pen fain would tell all the sorrowful tale Which his heart, full of fear, has not courage to do!
From The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses by Manning, J. C.
Bid them be brave;—they will be brave for you; bid them be cowards; and how noble soever they be;—they will quail for you.
From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John
