Crossword-Solution: QUAILS
We have 12 clues for the answer “QUAILS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Birds in a covey | 1 answer |
| Cowers | 1 answer |
| Cowers in fear | 1 answer |
| Gallinaceous game | 1 answer |
| Migratory game birds | 1 answer |
| Producers of tiny spotted eggs | 1 answer |
| Shows cowardice | 1 answer |
| Shrinks back | 6 answers |
| Trembles | 8 answers |
| DESPICABLE COWARDICE | 10 answers |
| cowardice | 25 answers |
| Game birds | 30 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with QUAILS (5)
Queer, indeed, they looked! Chanticleer himself, though stalking on two stilt-like legs, with the dignity of interminable descent in all his gestures, was hardly bigger than an ordinary partridge; his two wives were about the size of quails; and as for the one chicken, it looked small enough to be still in the egg, and, at the same time, sufficiently old, withered, wizened, and experienced, to have been founder of the antiquated race.
The graceful swan, the mongrels, the black-necked wild goose; partridges, quails, pheasants and pigeons; choice water fowl, with all their strange varieties, are caught in this huge family net.
The two friends ate together, and Vanamee, having snared a brace of quails, dressed and then roasted them on a sharpened stick.
THE QUAILS--A LEGEND OF THE JATAKA FROM THE RIVERSIDE FOURTH READER Ages ago a flock of more than a thousand quails lived together in a forest in India.
THE LITTLE TOWN OF THE GRAPE VINES There are still some places in the west where the quails cry "cuidado"; where all the speech is soft, all the manners gentle; where all the dishes have chile in them, and they make more of the Sixteenth of September than they do of the Fourth of July.
Quotes with QUAILS (3)
Beware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.
A fat man eating quails while children are begging for bread is a disgusting sight, but you are less likely to see it when you are within the sound of the guns.
Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1980–2020).