How To Use Quail In A Sentence

It's like quail hunting: A short, light 20-gauge gun is faster than a big, heavy 12 in covering a covey rise.
The driving force behind a great organization is to never forget the passion and principles we all support in habitat work for the wild quail and all upland game. Quail Unlimited Implodes
In hunting for quail, it is called neophyte, sophomoric, ticketing, hunting accident. Bringing the Spirit of a Vietnam Vet up to Speed on Iraq
Restrictions and slaughter provisions apply to domestic fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea fowls, quail, ratites, pigeons, pheasants and partridges reared or kept in captivity.
The town has another curiosity - the farm shop, which has ballooned into Britain's poshest supermarket, complete with wicker trugs instead of shopping trolleys and quails' eggs by the dozen.

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Does that mean that a man is a better machine for running than a quail, or a chipmunk or mouse?
Hard boil the fresh quails' eggs for 3min, cool slightly and shell. 2.
A pressé of chicken livers and foie gras was followed by a bowl of outstandingly smooth velouté of ceps with a poached quail's egg.
Charlie quailed at the sound of his mother's angry voice.
A deer was said to be broken, a cony unlaced, a pheasant, partridge, or quail winged, a pigeon or a woodcock thighed, a plover minced, a mallard unbraced. Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine
I quailed at the prospect, but soon saw in it a stimulating, even noble challenge.
Just around the corner of my street, the mechanical laughter of California quail and the quarrel of crows up in the majestic heights of a Colorado spruce that was left to grow, untended for years now.
Season and using a pastry hag fitted with a small round tip, pipe the wasabi mayonnaise into the center of each quail egg white.
For close-flushing game like pheasants or quail, you simply took your time when the bird got up.
International cuisine uses the eggs of other birds, including ducks, geese, sparrows, quails and ostriches, but it is the hen that has been universally domesticated.
There also were natural grasslands in valley bottoms and on plateaus, as evidenced by the presence of several endemic buttonquail taxa needing grasslands. Luzon rain forests
Jillie leads me through an opening in the brush, a path lined with white knotweed and purple morning glories that opens up, just beyond the briers of blackberry vines that have long been picked clean by quail and finches, into a meadow lighted with goldenrod and sunlight against the rusty tops of tall grasses, striving against the subtle blues of the lobelia and the aggressive reds of jack-in-the-pulpits. Taxonomies
Four of these species are considered vulnerable: Sumba buttonquail (Turnix everetti), red-naped fruit-dove (Ptilinopus dohertyi), Sumba boobook (Ninox rudolfi), and Sumba hornbill (Aceros everetti). Sumba deciduous forests
Do you think your father would stop work to talk to tramps?" she demanded of the boy, who visibly quailed, even as Josiah. THE PRODIGAL FATHER
Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
We are heading to a hunting club, which stocks its extensive fields with captive-bred pheasants and quail. Birdology
Quail did not figure prominently in medieval menus in England, although they are regular summer visitors, familiar in hayfields and cornfields and sometimes called corncrakes for that reason.
But on that one day, Graham bagged something much more significant than a wolf or a quail…
I am a new gun dog owner and am trying to teach rolf, my weimaraner how to hunt the few small quail pockets in southwest missouri. Who Wrote The Dogs Out?
Changing habitats that increase edge and maintain early successional habitat benefit the quail.
Leeds University scientists have calculated the birds, including tiny quail weighing mere grammes, are five times fitter than our Olympic athletes.
Other creatures can also flourish there, including quail, jackrabbits, and small, wild pigs called javelinas.
Herds of deer roam in the open glades; droves of pigs are found in the forest somewhat similar to those of England; and a bird, the ynambu guazu, as large as a pheasant; while quails are seen in flocks in the esteros, -- with snipe, wild pigeons, and other birds. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
In Pieter Bruegel the Elder's "The Harvesters" 1565, from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, tiny background figures can be seen throwing sticks at a tied-up goose in a game called squail. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
Did he miss Denis McQuail's letter of 29 November, noting that ‘out of the 29 pieces, 14 were datelined in the US, 11 in Europe and four elsewhere’?
Quail wiped his hands on a clean page of the Shopper and rose and unlatched the little window. New Year's Eve
I knew that the arête would have to be surmounted and I quailed in fear.
Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
John Piercy, of St Peter's Street, Norton, realised 11 finches and four quails had been taken from their cage when he saw the aviary door had been forced open.
Male quail are often aggressive before and during the breeding season.
On our evening there was quail eggs, capsicum (bell peppers), sweet corn, mixed vegetables, onions, tomatoes, cauliflower and snow peas.
Ince flies a mature tiercel male peregrine successfully at snipe, dove and quail, some of the toughest quarries any trained falcon catches. Archive 2006-02-01
Del had come into the world with lungs of leather and larynx of brass, and when he thus jerked out the stops the Scotsman quailed and shrank down. CHAPTER 24
A covey of quail took off, too, and I began feeling like Attila the Hun tromping through the forest.
Roast the quail for 15 minutes. Times, Sunday Times
It is worth cooking extra quail's eggs for future salads - they will keep for up to a week in the fridge. Times, Sunday Times
The Border Ranges are the center of distribution for the pouched frog (Assa darlingtoni) and harbor a number of restricted range birds, including the black-breated buttonquail (Turnix melanogaster VU). Eastern Australian temperate forests
So great is the weight of expectation and reputation they bring before them, lesser bands have quailed at the prospect of appearing alongside the mighty Travis.
This is dozer at 7 weeks, I wanted to see what he would do with a bird so I tossed him a quail. Best Gun Dog Contest
Phasianid galliforms are commonly known as grouse, turkeys, pheasants, partridges, francolins, and Old World quail.
One morning he pointed the only covey of quail I saw in Iowa all season. Stop New-Shotgun Misfires with Break Free CLP
But it has done the trick and now even the tiniest of baby quail are quite safe inside.
That gun accounted for many squirrels, coons, rabbits, doves, quail and jacksnipe the first few years of my hunting career. Why .410 Shotguns Are Better for Experts than for Kids
The use of quail as donor and chick as host provides a means for discriminating donor cells in the host environment due the unique properties of the quail nucleolus.
The area supported a very thin stand of quail.
The legislation, pushed by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, is aimed at generating funding for programs targeting game birds such as mourning doves and quail.
Baby artichokes en barigoule (braised in white wine and olive oil) came with perfectly soft-boiled halves of quails' eggs and effervescent-tasting violet heartsease flowers.
We started with a trio of excellent amuse-bouches—haddock and goat's cheese in filo pastry followed by a small tart containing quail's eggs with hollandaise sauce, and rounded off with cherry tomatoes filled with beef.
Lovely alongside hard-boiled quail's eggs (as my mother-in-law serves it!) Rigolo - French Word-A-Day
A boned and stuffed quail, on a chestnut and cinnamon risotto with soused figs?
That was Conner's first thought when the revelers exploded out of sight like a covey of quail.
He flushed Cochrane from the woods like a frightened covey of Mississippi quail.
For the mushroom fancier the game is now on, with every shape and variety on local stalls, wild boar and young kid appear on the menu and the valleys resound to the huntsman's gun and partridge and quail hang from cottage doorways.
Up to nine birds, including three budgies, a dove, a finch, two hens and a quail died at the pets' corner in Longford Park, Stretford.
During the past seven years, Poppy and husband Pete, who fund the sanctuary themselves, have taken scores of animals and birds under their wing, including geese, dogs, a cow, partridge, pheasant and quail.
International cuisine uses the eggs of other birds, including ducks, geese, sparrows, quails and ostriches, but it is the hen that has been universally domesticated.
Amazing what you can find at the end of your street: a Norwegian smokery; a teenager breeding Chinese painted quails; a reformed drug- smuggler making 75 different types of sausage. Evening Standard - Home
These are some quail I photographed in Cambria, CA. Field & Stream
Just a dog that can let me know when I'm about to bust into a patch of quail, or when a cottontail is lurking nearby. Who Wrote The Dogs Out?
Pour over the quail and serve. Times, Sunday Times
Amongst an immense number of others are found many new reptiles, some of them adapted for fresh water; species of birds allied to the sea-lark, curlew, quail, buzzard, owl, and pelican; species allied to the dormouse and squirrel; also the opossum and racoon; and species allied to the genette, fox, and wolf. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Raptors are known to prey on game species, such as quails, partridges, pheasants and rabbits.
Or the plump and moist quail which the menu calls deboned, but isn't quite. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
This is the supreme test and England have quailed at the very thought of it.
Cranes and their relatives belong to an old and wide-ranging group of birds that includes rails, coots, sungrebes, kagu, sunbitterns, roatelos, buttonquail, cranes, limpkins, trumpeters, seriemas, and bustards.
Once the butter starts to sizzle, add the quail and brown all over (one to two minutes).
The spaghetti carbonara with quail's eggs doesn't cut the mustard either, as it's missing the necessary pepper.
Canyons and creeks ran to the river down gullies 200 feet deep and were full of quail, and cottontails and coyotes and jack rabbits.
Dog handler Shawn Griffin kneeled and grabbed a bobwhite quail from the panting pointer.
It featured a sporting clay shoot, guided hunts for pheasant and quail and a celebrity dinner with live and silent auctions.
He would tree squirrels, flush quail, chase rabbits to me and even run coons alongside our Redbone coonhound. Five Good Small-Breed Bird Hunting Dogs
It has been suggested that columbids are closely related to gamebirds, buttonquails, parrots, shorebirds and sandgrouse (sandgrouse are sometimes included in the order Columbiformes).
Initially, I quailed at the thought, but with the encouragement of my friends and the realisation that this would finally expose my genius outside of the blogosphere, I capitulated.
He should be out eating quail egg sandwiches, drinking extra large balloons of brandy and snorting beluga caviar off the bonnet of a Lamborghini.
The right side of his face was not entirely immobile, but rigid, as though molded from some obscene plastic, and above it the bare front of his scalp was frail and spotted brown, like a quail's egg.
You can also order pheasant, caviar, quail, goose, salmon roes, imported cheese and Scottish smoked salmon.
Nearly everyone knows that American quail hunting as practiced by our grandfathers is disappearing faster than free air at gas stations. The Bird Guys
(I had served quails with polenta, the breasty little birds lightly browned first in the pan, and then cooked gently with shallots. A CONVICTION OF GUILT
That also seems to be the case with some of the other New World quail and appears to reflect a bit of Old World bias of the authors.
Farmer Dan Giles turned 2,000 of his 3,000 acres into a hunting preserve for deer, turkey and quail.
It is the only locality in the country for striped buttonquail Turnix sylvatica, bristled grass warbler Chaetornis striatus andslender-billed babbler Turdoides longirostris. Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal
He can capably hunt bobwhite quail and pheasants in the brushy coverts.
First up was the pea soup with quail egg and chervil; next came the warm tartlet of baby leeks, lamb's lettuce and summer truffles; this was followed by foie gras and toasted sourdough.
And to call _Theseus_ backe from his begunne imprese and bold attempt, and to terrifie the Gyant _Typhon_, and to make the proudest and stoutest heart whatsoeuer to quaile and stoope. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
But then a new male and female California quail strolled into the yard with a recently hatched brood of five chicks.
Tokyo - Bird flu has been detected at a quail farm in the central Japanese city of Toyohashi, the government said Friday. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
The office of the First Lady said the menu included 'fruitwood-smoked quail with quince gastrique', 'quinoa risotto', 'thyme-roasted rack of lamb', 'tomato, fennel and eggplant fondue' and a salad course of 'endive', 'baked vermont brie' and 'walnut crostini'. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
Raptors are known to prey on game species, such as quails, partridges, pheasants and rabbits.
The feast includes quail in wine and duck confit followed by rice pudding. The Sun
Still, when all around were dining on quails' eggs, Orwell was roughing it in the kitchens of swanky hotels, dossing down in flea pits and blundering in the Spanish Civil war.
Additional cover can be made from hollow logs, stacked rocks, and woodpiles, which form perfect hiding places for lizards, quail, rabbits, and other small animals.
I have had reports of buzzard and nocturnal quail.
Callipepla californica are New World quail, birds that have chunky, rounded bodies and crests or head plumes.
Prometheus faced his bitter fate firmly and never quailed before all the fiery majesty of Zeus.
I'm sure Senyor Adria's soft-boiled quails' eggs in a caramel glaze, his wild strawberries in Campari and his deconstructed paella were wasted on the music-trade bigwigs, who would have been happier at McDonald's.
Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
Rove, a keen chef, would cook the wild dove and quail they had shot. Times, Sunday Times
President Bush hosted the G-20 summit – the official menu included fruitwood-smoked quail, thyme-roasted rack of lamb and baked Vermont brie with walnut crostini, along with three wines ... G-20 Meets, Dines in DC, Does Nothing to Save the World Economy
Well, he looked at us in just that way, and those nearest to him quailed. THE PEG
"How can it be this good?" I thought as I dismantled a partially deboned hunk of quail and scarfed up its sublime, crackly crust.
So is it finally time for someone to invite Palin to play Duck (or quail) Hunt with a boozed up Dick Cheney? Think Progress » Palin says she’s fine with Limbaugh’s use of the ‘r-word.’
‘Who are you, son?’ she asked Momma, whose heart quailed for a moment at this unexpected encounter.
These easterly rains, when they do come, which is not often, come wi 'might enough to squail a man into his grave.' The Hand of Ethelberta
She quailed at the prospect of addressing such a large crowd.
For example, the moment when the recent great Australia team first began to openly venerate and quail before the baggy green cap, tearful with galvanising hat-love. Colonial promiscuity in danger of diluting test cricket's pleasures | Barney Ronay
Got into alot of good bobwhite coveys over the years, the last year we went we got into some blue quail which havent been in our area for a long time, kind of exciting. What are the best states and best areas within the state for quail hunting? Are Rattlers a problem?
If they're in the mood for something different, they also can hunt for geese, quail, ducks, and pheasants.
You eat quail's eggs because they are dainty, sweet and delicious. Times, Sunday Times
The Quail's voice also gave rise to a number of imitative names in Britain and Ireland, which incorporate the three sharp notes.
And to complete it all his horse stumbled upon several large broods of half-grown quail, and the air was filled with the thrum of their flight. Chapter VIII
Dishes tonight involve a loin of venison and a quail. The Sun
A salad with a sugar-beet mousseline fades against its contemporaries, and a beautifully roasted quail is almost hijacked by too many highfalutin buddies (it's stuffed with dumplings, foie gras, and truffles).
Quail eggs are very high in cholesterol.
The biggest pests on the farm are the varmints - voles, gophers, wild turkey and quail.
Tokyo - Birds from a second quail farm in the central Japanese city of Toyohashi tested positive for the highly pathogenic H7N6 strain of bird flu, the local government said Monday. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
Another interesting feature about pheasants is the extraordinary difference in plumage between the sexes, a gap equalled only between the blackcock and greyhen and quite unknown in the partridge, quail and grouse. Birds in the Calendar
Hunting quail from a mule-drawn wagon is all that. Is This the Ultimate Dog Vehicle?
In such cases the girl “should bring him to her house under the pretence of seeing the fights of quails, cocks and rams, of hearing the maina (a kind of starling) talk .... she should also amuse him for a long time by telling him such stories and doing such things as he may take most delight in.” The Life of Sir Richard Burton
The communion season approaches; how can you pronounce thir solemn words, “The elders will now bring forrit the elements,” and not quail? Lay Morals
Last year, when I was still walking almost daily through my neighborhood, there were quail everywhere, as well as mourning doves.
Thus, he lists as noblest the meat of turtledoves, starlings, doves, quails, pheasants, blackbirds, woodcock, partridge, and chaffinch.
Pour over the quail and serve. Times, Sunday Times
She quailed for a moment and the red spots on her cheeks looked like blood as she, incredibly, paled even more. The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Six
What many liberals haven't grasped is the number of "insured," will dramatically outnumber the available doctors and facilities .... and wait times, quailty of service and competency in medical decisions will suffer. First on the CNN Ticker: RNC slams Obama in first TV ad
The principal game birds of Britain are grouse, partridge, pheasant, plus woodcock, pigeon, quail, and various wild duck and marsh fowl.
Representatives of museums - notably the Victoria and Albert - visibly quailed under the audience's onslaught.
The buttonquails or hemipodes resemble, but are unrelated to, the true quails.
It is worth cooking extra quail's eggs for future salads - they will keep for up to a week in the fridge. Times, Sunday Times
This is the quail, which is like a little plump partridge. Times, Sunday Times
Had he not been trying to keep a brave front, Damien may have quailed beneath the glare his leader.
Roast the quail for 15 minutes. Times, Sunday Times
Is there some functional similarity with mate choice in quail?
In addition, there are other male-incubating species such as buttonquail, mesites, sandgrouse, and shorebirds that have neither helpers nor communal cooperation.
Tuck wings behind back and lightly season quail inside and out with salt and black pepper.
At one stage, I quailed at the thought of trying to put it back together, but by the time I arrived home, I was viewing the disaster as a challenge and wondering what interesting things I could invent to put in the place of what had been lost.
He was storing quails in the boiler room, plus running a hooky toffee-apple business. Times, Sunday Times
Wipe excess marinade off quail and grill quail, skin side down, over hot coals for 4 to 5 minutes.
Accordingly, the Pithamarda should bring the man to her house, under the pretence of seeing the fights of quails, cocks, and rams, of hearing the maina (a kind of starling) talk, or of seeing some other spectacle, or the practice of some art; or he may take the woman to the abode of the man. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From The Sanscrit In Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks
Though his tail grew back, he spent the rest of his days cringing in a corner of the coop, quailing at any sudden movement, and completely immune to the attractions of his feathered harem.
Dio lived through turbulent times: he and his fellow senators quailed before tyrannical emperors and lamented the rise of men they regarded as upstarts, and in Pannonia he grappled with the problem of military indiscipline.
I've also walked off a quail hunt in Texas, and off a whitetail drive on a cottonwood island in Montana, and off a nilgai hunt in Texas after the hunter behind me sent a rifle bullet past my head. Why Die When You Can Leave?
As a control, the researchers also exposed chickadees to a perched bobwhite quail, a non-predatory species.
The sides of the Berg were full of quail and partridge and bush pheasant, and on the grassy plateau there was abundance of a bird not unlike our own blackcock, which the Dutch called korhaan. Prester John
Cattle grazed the pastures where prairie hens, quail and coyote roamed.
I've been hunting bobwhite quail since my grandaddy took me with him at age 10.
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. The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
The game - strange list - included pheasant, swan, heron, crane, curlew, partridge, plover, rails and quails, but also three different dishes of venison.
Restricted range and globally threatened birds present in Cape York Peninsula include the buff-breasted buttonquail (Turnix olivii EN), golden-shouldered parrot (Psephotus chrysopterygius EN), lovely fairywren (Malurus amabilis), white-streaked honeyeater (Trichodere cockerelli), and yellow-spotted honeyeater (Meliphaga notata). Cape York tropical savanna
He was concerned about erosion, and wanted to improve his pasturage, but he also remembered the Valley quail he had grown up with, and hoped to see them again on his land.
Should the man choose to chase the quail rather than shoot it, he would almost certainly still have his dinner.
My entree: CAVENDISH QUAIL VERMONTQUAIL BREAST WRAPPED in PANCETTA & SLOW ROASTED LEG Pyramid Ravioli with "Bolognese" & Polenta Fonduta Braised Lacinato Kale with Garlic & Aleppo Pepper FlakesToasted Pine Nut & Parmesan Relish, Roasted Quail Jus Tuna Toast
They fight every kind of animal, goats, birds, even quails and larks, which are very plucky, and want to fight; but they pull them off if they want to ill-use one another too much. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
An oriole in orange and black heard his challenge, and flew up the river bank, answering at steady intervals for quite a time before it was visible, and in resorting to the last notes he could think of a quail whistled "Bob White" and a shitepoke, skulking along the river bank, stopped and cried, "Cowk, cowk! The Harvester
Accordingly he shouted to his eunuchs and women an order to serve food, and they set before them a tray containing birds of every king that walk and fly and in nests increase and multiply, such as sand-grouse and quails and pigeon-poults and lambs and fatted geese and fried poultry and other dishes of all sorts and colours. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Reviews the 250 species of pheasants, partridges, grouse, quails, turkeys, guineafowls, buttonquails, sandgrouse, and plains-wanderers of the world.
The derivation of the word ‘quail’ has been charmingly explored by the author who points out that it is an imitative name, cognate with ‘quack’.
Jillie leads me through an opening in the brush, a path lined with white knotweed and purple morning glories that opens up, just beyond the briers of blackberry vines that have long been picked clean by quail and finches, into a meadow lighted with goldenrod and sunlight against the rusty tops of tall grasses, striving against the subtle blues of the lobelia and the aggressive reds of jack-in-the-pulpits. Taxonomies
Fried quail reaches new heights in this recipe.
In such cases the girl "should bring him to her house under the pretence of seeing the fights of quails, cocks and rams, of hearing the maina (a kind of starling) talk .... she should also amuse him for a long time by telling him such stories and doing such things as he may take most delight in. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
In Paris there was no one afraid of her; no humble matrons to quail as her severe eyes surveyed wall and ceiling, floor and surbase. The Lovels of Arden
Most game birds are also galliforms, including grouse, partridges, pheasants, quails, ptarmigans, and wild turkeys.
She quailed when she heard his voice near her ear.
Quails call from the unshorn meadows and the rivers teem with trout and pike. Times, Sunday Times
No. 2 Phil Mickelson, the winner here in 2007, is coming off a win at the Masters and a runner-up to Rory McIlroy in the Quail Hollow Championship. On the bag: Now playing, Return to PGA Tour's island
Since they could see my tiny movements through the window, I flushed the quail from time to time into the bushes on the other side of the yard.
I rather quail at the thought of MPs looking at banking culture as part of their inquiry into Libor. Times, Sunday Times
I quailed at the thought of a long train journey with a small baby.
A more elegant and courtly preparation was quail in aspic, often served with foie gras or truMes.
The five remaining huddled close to one another, rocking nervously side to side like a covey of quail before a bird-dog. NAKED EMPIRE
When plans call for grilling, sauteing, or broiling, quail takes well to marinating for flavor enhancement.
New Zealand quail nests were shallow scrapes in the ground with grass lining.
In the 1930s, when they anticipated that cost, many politicians quailed.
Cattle grazed the pastures where prairie hens, quail and coyote roamed.
President Reagan's lack of interest in the details might be fine fun for the coveys of arms control quails.
The first of these was an intense passion among local farmers for hunting that delicious, wild speckled bird known as the bobwhite quail.
In the lower reaches of the river, red-crowned crane Grus japonensis (EN), hooded crane Grus monacha* (VU), oriental stork Ciconia boyciana (EN), black stork Ciconia nigra*, yellow-legged buttonquail Turnix tanki, Far Eastern curlew Numenius madagascariensis and grey-faced buzzard Butastur indicus* are present. Central Sikhote-Alin, Russian Federation
Poultry comprise two groups: major poultry, chicken, duck and goose, the chicken being the most important; and minor poultry, including pigeon, quail, pheasant, chukar, partridge, Guinea fowl, and waterfowl.
International cuisine uses the eggs of other birds, including ducks, geese, sparrows, quails and ostriches, but it is the hen that has been universally domesticated.
Place sweetbreads on plate and top with poached quail egg.
Great bustards weigh rather more than quail, and when the first hunter was concussed the reaction was one of panic, and swift running for shelter.
Danny had the Grilled Quail with chive spaetzle and lentils and that had more flavor, but not a ton of meat.
Like all other game birds, quail need to be cooked carefully to avoid overcooking, as the flesh can dry out.
This was a bit of a weird one, with the birds really drenched in the sauce - maybe they overdid it a little bit, as the dressing overwhelmed the quails' natural flavour somewhat.
On the one hand, you have the uplands: home to the ruffed grouse and the woodcock, the ringneck pheasant, the bobwhite quail, and just possibly sharptail grouse and Hungarian partridge, too.
Restrictions and slaughter provisions apply to domestic fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea fowls, quail, ratites, pigeons, pheasants and partridges reared or kept in captivity.
Despite their name, quarry tiles are made, not quailed, from a mixture of natural ingredients including clay and shale.
Before dinner we munched on quail eggs and sevruga and checked out the Picassos. 'One Life Is Not Enough'
So a real bird I'm sure would be like, "Oh my God, listen to that" and they'd be out of there, so they -- they hunt what we call quail tarts, which are specially raised birds that hear noise and go "I'm going to go check that out," walk over and the vice president can just walk right up to them and either shoot them with his gun or hit them in the face with his hammer, whatever he wants to do. CNN Transcript Feb 27, 2006
The fare is suitably hearty, with wild boar, roast pheasant and quail casserole all on the menu. Times, Sunday Times
This is the quail, which is like a little plump partridge. Times, Sunday Times
Smaller, richer-tasting meats such as pheasant, duck, partridge, pigeon, even diminutive quail are increasingly finding their way onto my Christmas table.
But if this is not true, as even David Cameron began to recognise in last week's speech, though he quailed before the full logic of his new position, then everything changes. Words won't change capitalism. So be daring and do something | Will Hutton
Also called a hemipode, it resembles a true quail in appearance and way of life but is more closely related to sandgrouse and pigeons.
Also, they have quite a reputation as a depredator of quail, chicken, and turkey eggs.
My meal began with a pickled quail egg touched with mashed black truffles, and a little pot of mashed Cheddar cheese and pimentos, served with toast points arranged on a silver rack.

How To Use Quail In A Sentence

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