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Such a period had occurred just before my story opens. It was a whole month since the town boys had made our lives unhappy by calling, and howling, and yelling, and squeaking on every occasion they met us the following apparently inoffensive couplet: "A, B, C, Look at the baby!" How we hated that cry, and quailed when we heard it!
Soon after their last company had reported, the frightful war-dance, peculiar to the American savages, was enacted in sight of the trappers' position. The battle songs and shouts which accompanied the dance reached the ears of the whites with fearful distinctness. Any other than hearts of oak with courage of steel would have quailed before this terrible display of savage enmity and ferocity.
It is not necessary here to follow the noble popular demonstrations that rounded off by a delegate convention, which, at the simple request of Boston, assembled in Faneuil Hall. The officials, who had long played falsely with a liberty-loving, yet loyal people, now fairly quailed before the whirlwind of their righteous indignation.
But there was more sourness, an added droop, the lips were thinner, and the shrew wrinkles were deeper. She swept Josiah with a hostile, withering stare. "Do you think your father would stop work to talk to tramps?" she demanded of the boy, who visibly quailed, even as Josiah. "I was only answering his questions," Johnnie pleaded doggedly but hopelessly. "He wanted to know "
It had been worth while, because the end of the road was in sight and we had accomplished much that we had hoped to do more, in some respects. It was unbearably hot that morning, and we decided against the trip to Presho. After all, one more day wouldn't matter, and the sun was so scorching we quailed at the thought of that long ride.
'Those who do not perform their task in life are never happy. The words drilled themselves into his brain with relentless insistency. He felt a terrible emptiness within him which he could not fill. He looked at his wife and quailed a little at the thought that had suddenly come upon him. She was something like himself that was why he had married her. We are attracted by what is like ourselves.
He thought of the pole in the corner and quailed in his belly, but the utter despair of the two men dulled their astuteness. "It would take a ladder for any one not a tumbler," said the wounded man listlessly. His companion broke into hysterical laughter. "A tumbler. Oh, a tumbler. Oh " Wessel stared at them in wonder.
Denny quailed though he said he did not but then he doesn't know what quailing is, and if Denny did not quail then Oswald does not know what quailing is either. For when Oswald took the shoe off he naturally chucked it down and gave it a kick, and a lot of little pinky yellow things rolled out. And Oswald look closer at the interesting sight. And the little things were SPLIT peas.
"I could easily convince you, Professor, of your error" his eyes quailed and dropped to the floor "but I your arm, my dear Joseph; age is creeping upon me." He rose to his feet. "I am feeling really indisposed to-day not at all bright; my solicitude for you, my dear b "
Indeed, no pen can express the terror that filled the hearts of these brave and hardy men at the thought of being thus entombed in a living grave; they quailed not when meeting death face to face, but shrank in dread at the slowly advancing foe. All but the boy!
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