Quailed

He's a person who quailed before imagined public prejudice by cancelling an exhibition of Arab-Canadian art immediately after 9/11 -- for which he received a parliamentary rap on the knuckles. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I had not quailed sufficiently in advance; so he chose a new way to intimidate me. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But if this is not true, as even David Cameron began to recognise in last week's speech, though he quailed before the full logic of his new position, then everything changes. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Well, he looked at us in just that way, and those nearest to him quailed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Del had come into the world with lungs of leather and larynx of brass, and when he thus jerked out the stops the Scotsman quailed and shrank down. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She quailed for a moment and the red spots on her cheeks looked like blood as she, incredibly, paled even more. ❋ Xcpublishing (2009)

"Do you think your father would stop work to talk to tramps?" she demanded of the boy, who visibly quailed, even as Josiah. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Even as one part of her mind uttered those bracing words, however, another part quailed. ❋ Rose Melikan (2010)

I discovered Plummer by mistake about four years ago, in the rare book section, judged the book by its cover a beautiful drawing of a lurcher but quailed when I saw the £22 price tag. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But in the end it quailed at making a radical departure from traditional construction in Black Canyon. ❋ Michael Hiltzik (2010)

His face turned grave, and Dor quailed, know ing it had to be the other thing that perturbed the Iuld ❋ John Dermot Woods (2010)

The man quailed and became even more anxious to please. ❋ Sandra Brown (2010)

Paddy quailed obediently, his eyes wide, but inwardly he exulted with the full knowledge of revelation unveiled. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He could change Labour ruthlessly, but quailed before the gods of public administration. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They had not seen her, that fine girl in her a-mussment; they had not been led to her through the flowering forest by a magical horse with a horn in its head; they had not quailed under her disdain, or plumped up again with hope when she had looked more kindly on them. ❋ Justine Larbalestier (2010)

I joined in the standing ovation, but somewhere deep inside I quailed. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The other half quailed at trying to emulate Jean-Jacques Rousseau ' s frank Confessions. ❋ Edmund Morris (2010)