Mr. Lambert was seated at his desk; and the light coming in through the window shone upon his glasses so that neither of the quailing young people could quite see his eyes.
"Jane Lends A Hand"
Shirley Watkins
The power and intensity with which this character of the haughty, stern, yet inwardly quailing woman is drawn are unsurpassed in their way, and there is tragic horror in the recoil of her finest sensibilities from the vulgar, mean, self-complacent lawyer, too thick-skinned ever to know that in his own person he is a daily judgment on her whose life has been made hideous for his sake.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
"Why of course I do," unhesitatingly replied Anstey, though not without quailing before the indignation and contempt depicted on all three faces.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford