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3 Quotes for 'Quail' in the Database.
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Quail Quotes
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In jalousie I rede eek thou hym bynde
And thou shalt make him couche as doeth a quaille.
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Source: The Canterbury Tales (l. 13,541), The Clerk's Tale
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The song-birds leave us at the summer's close,
Only the empty nests are left behind,
And pipings of the quail among the sheaves.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: The Harvest Moon
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Here's Agamemnon, an honest fellow enough, and one that loves
quails, but he has not so much brain as ear-wax; and the goodly
transformation of Jupiter there, his brother, the bull, the
primitive statue and oblique memorial of cockolds; a thrifty
shoeing-horn in a chain, hanging at his brother's leg, to what
form but that he is should wit larded with malice and malice
forced with wit turn him to? To an ass, were nothing; he is both
ass and ox: to an ox, were nothing; he is both ox and ass. To
be a dog, a mule, a cat, a fitchew, a toad, a lizard, an owl, a
puttock, or a herring without roe, I would not care; but to be
Memelaus! I would conspire against destiny.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Thersites at V, i)
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