Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 418 Quaylynge, of lycoure, coagulacio.

a1500 in A. Way Promptorium Parvulorum 418 (MED) For qualing of mylk—cast þerto a letil flour, and styre it wele.

c1560 J. Lacy Wyl Bucke his Test. (Copland) sig. B.i^v Sete him [sc. the chine] on the fire and toyle him with a pot staffe tyl he sethe for quailing, and then he shal be browne of his owne kinde.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. xlix. 310 To stay the quailing of the milke in their stomacks.

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 101^v To laye vnto ye Goddes ye fautte of quaillyng and mysprouyng.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iv. i. 39 There is no quailing now, Because the king is certainly possest Of al our purposes. View more context for this quotation

1627 G. Hakewill Apologie ii. i. 65 The quailing and withering of all things, by the recesse..of the Sunne.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Quailing of the Stomack, beginning to be qualmish or uneasy.

1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 41 This must also be traversed, there is no quailing now, you must endure to the End.

a1783 H. Brooke Vestal Virgin (1789) i. iv. 361 There is no quailing—I have seal'd my promise—My honour is at stake, and must be ransom'd.

1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. vii. 183 I bore with her feeble minded quailings.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iv. xxx. 251 There is no quailing..which has not an ugly obverse.

1922 Bridgeport (Connecticut) Telegram 11 May 12/1 I wasn't equal to defending them even against opposition. It took all my strength to put down my own quailings.

1992 Sunday Times (Nexis) 19 July The eventual disclosure of what lies behind Isobella's quailing from sex is predictable.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 51 Þerfore men puttenge hit [sc. Africa] the thrydde parte of the worlde folowede..reasones of diuision, departenge hit as a wailenge [L. languidam] parte in the wurste site and ordre from the beste places.

1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) ix. f. 113 Too quicken vp the quayling loue.

1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. iv. xxi*. 94 Did quicken Englands quayling Prowes.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) ii. iii. 54 This may plant courage in their quailing breasts. View more context for this quotation

1633 J. Ford Broken Heart iv. i. sig. H4 The plot is Sparta, the dry'd Uine the King; The quailing grape his daughter.

1755 M. Mendez Squire of Dames i. xxi, in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems IV. 132 Then with a word thy quailing leman save, For if you frown, perdie, you doom me to the grave.

1799 J. Grahame Wallace ii. i. 25 At our trumpet's sound, the quailing hearts Of thousands of the common rebel rout Will leap for joy.

1842 Times 3 Oct. 6/2 The quailing posture into which she sank at the presence of the ghost was terrific.

1894 E. Sullivan Woman 34 Shrinking, quailing, agonised victims.

1929 Amer. Speech 4 225 He might never have gone blind or turned his home into a workhouse for his quailing daughters.

1991 J. Barnes Talking it Over xiv. 204 You might pop up from some umbrageous segment of the kirk and register a quailing objection.