Quailing
[kweɪlɪŋ]
Examples
- Well,' said Mr Riderhood, quailing a little, 'I am willing to be silent for the purpose of hearing. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- These tidings were at first whispered about town; but no one dared express aloud the soul-quailing intelligence. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He was restless and sleepless, but still quailing and manageable. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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