Слово "quail". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

Out in the back-pasture, a quail could flutter up under his nose unharmed.

The chatter of the peasants; the rumbling of horses and waggons; the joyous cries of quails; the hum of insects as they hung suspended in the motionless air; the smell of the soil and grain and steam from our horses; the thousand different lights and shadows which the burning sun cast upon the yellowish–white cornland; the purple forest in the distance; the white gossamer threads which were floating in the air or resting on the soil–all these things I observed and heard and felt to the core.

He listened greedily to the quail calling, and laughed outright, once, in sheer joy, at a tiny chipmunk that fled scolding up a bank, slipping on the crumbly surface and falling down, then dashing across the road under his horse's nose and, still scolding, scrabbling up a protecting oak.

  The movement was so swift and fierce that Mr Verloc, casting an oblique glance, quailed inwardly.

He quailed.

His heart quailed before the enormous pyramidal shape.

Just then, as the heart-quailing bells were heard on Sadovaya, ringing from long red engines racing quickly from all parts of the city, the people rushing about the yard saw how, along with the smoke, there flew out of the fifth-storey window three dark, apparently male silhouettes and one silhouette of a naked woman.

"Ah!" Poirot shook his forefinger so fiercely at me that I quailed before it.