Lexicographical Neighbors of Quailings
Literary usage of Quailings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Metropolitan (1846)
"More decided quailings of the spirit and yearnings for home now began to manifest
themselves on the part of my fellow- adventurer ; but I kept them pretty ..."
2. The Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor: Containing Choice and Characteristic by William Evans Burton (1858)
"Hans received an intimation of this latter opinion ; and, after sundry quailings
and misgivings, he resolved to dispose of his remaining stock in trade, ..."
3. Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor by Wayne E. Burton (1868)
"Hans received an intimation of this latter opinion ; and, after sundry quailings
and misgivings, he resolved to dispose of his remaining stock in trade, ..."
4. The Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor: Containing Choice and Characteristic by William Evans Burton (1864)
"Hans received an intimation of this latter opinion; and, after sundry quailings
and misgivings, he resolved to dispose of his remaining stock in trade, and, ..."
5. The Bagford Ballads: Illustrating The Last Years of the Stuarts by John Bagford, Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth (1878)
"Even so sensible a man as John Evelyn suffered under tremors and quailings, in
the presence of "Portents." Thus, on December 12, 1680, he notes in his ..."
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