But the White House would almost certainly be sued, and anyway many conservatives quail at the prospect.
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She's faced the undead in the icy north — she's not just going to quail at Cersei's icy glare.
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Ms. Stamper has no patience for self-styled purists who quail at "irregardless" — an actual word, she notes.
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But many struggle to track debt, quail at smartphones, and forget the PIN codes needed for their bank cards.
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At least a few Republican senators may similarly quail at handing a difficult, non-partisan job to a lightly qualified politician.
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Mr. Patterson, a Republican, has hunted quail at Cibolo Creek, and a member of the country band the Dixie Chicks was married there in 1999.
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"I bear a very heavy burden of responsibility," Hart says, picking at a "game plate" of elk, buffalo and quail at The Fort restaurant outside of Denver.
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Then, I started seeing it everywhere: plantation quail at a restaurant in Hudson, NY, plantation mint tea at a friend's house in Massachusetts, plantation rum hailing from the Caribbean.
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" You may quail at first, as the fantastically smooth Dale from Blue Horizon (Brad Heberlee) asks the panelists searching questions like "In a word or a phrase, how is Mrs.
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Markets would quail at her desire to quit the euro, which she describes as a "knife in the ribs" of the French economy for denying its exporters the benefits of competitive devaluation.
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Customers usually put in their orders online, choosing products that range from grass-fed and free-range beef tenderloin — at S$42 ($30) per kilogram to local quail, at S$30 ($22) for 900 grams.
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The Blackwater refuge in Maryland has treated me to the stirring sight of hundreds of wintering tundra swans, while in New Mexico, I glimpsed the comical crests of my first-ever scaled quail at the Bitter Lake refuge.
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And in part it is because like a lot of us I cook for children and sometimes people who act like children, for those who quail at the new, at the odd, at the unfamiliar, the poorly branded, the strange.
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When I followed another into her windowless new palace on the first day of stage rehearsals, she did not quail at its industrial-strength ugliness but did gasp at the floor-to-ceiling mirrors a previous tenant had glued to a wall.
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Websites flog years' worth of freeze-dried gourmet meals to those who quail at the thought of surviving on tinned beans and lukewarm water (though the post-apocalyptic bar for "gourmet" is low—your correspondent sampled some freeze-dried sausage, and found it hauntingly reminiscent of dried cat food).
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J. Exptl. Zool., 12, 99-132 (1912)Coleman, W. B. Method of breeding quail at White Oak Quail Farm, Richmond, Virginia. Circular mimeográfica del mes de abril, 1930 (1930) Poultry farming in battery cages also helps to avoid broodiness.Orozco Piñán, O. y J. A. Castelló, 1963.
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The poem depicts Bombadil as a "merry fellow" living in a small valley close to the Withywindle river, where he wanders and explores nature at his leisure. Several of the valley's mysterious residents, including the "River-woman's daughter" Goldberry, the malevolent tree-spirit Old Man Willow, the Badger-folk and a Barrow-wight, attempt to capture Bombadil for their own ends, but quail at the power of Tom's voice, which defeats their enchantments and commands them to return to their natural existence. At the end of the poem, Bombadil captures and marries Goldberry. Throughout the poem, Bombadil is unconcerned by the attempts to capture him and brushes them off with the power in his words.
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I came [to the mission] to inspire the dirty cowards to fight, and not to quail at the sight of Spanish sticks that spit fire and death, nor [to] retch at the evil smell of gunsmoke—and be done with you white invaders!’ This quote, from Thomas Workman Temple II's article “Toypurina the Witch and the Indian Uprising at San Gabriel” is arguably a mistranslation and embellishment of her actual testimony. According to the soldier who recorded her words, she stated simply that she ‘‘was angry with the Padres and the others of the Mission, because they had come to live and establish themselves in her land.’’ Spanish officials found her and the three other men on trial to be guilty of leading the attack.
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