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quailing

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n. The act of one who quails, or draws back in fear. vb. (present participle of quail English)

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The moral interest of the fable, which is so powerfully sustained by the sufferings and endurance of Prometheus, would be annihilated if we could conceive of him as unsaying his high language and quailing before his successful and perfidious adversary.

Big men stood over three quailing suspects who had been shoved to their knees with hands bound behind.