quailed

Well, he looked at us in just that way, and those nearest to him quailed.

THE PEG 2010

I had not quailed sufficiently in advance; so he chose a new way to intimidate me.

Chapter 9 2010

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.

Archive 2009-11-01 2009

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.

Words won't change capitalism. So be daring and do something | Will Hutton 2012

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.

CHAPTER 24 2010

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

The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Six 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.

THE PRODIGAL FATHER 2010

Paddy quailed obediently, his eyes wide, but inwardly he exulted with the full knowledge of revelation unveiled.

Annals of the Naked Rowdies: The Earliest Days 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.

The Real Dogman | Meg Rosoff 2010

But in the end it quailed at making a radical departure from traditional construction in Black Canyon.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010