Word: quail
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale senior has recently won a wager by eating fourteen quail on fourteen successive days...
...confidence which we so blindly placed in the power and wisdom of that mighty today, the Board of Directors, by whose will, dry crusts of bread can be turned into a savory pudding, and the debris of fricasseed chicken into a warm and nourishing hash. Instead of the quail on toast or tenderloin steaks for which we had starved ourselves for several days, we were regaled with a strange compound called beef pie, a cousin German of our old enemy beef stew, and the entirely novel expedient of fried mush...
...with that zest which only a sportsman knows, after snipe and ducks in the marsh, or among woody haunts of ruffled grouse. It is almost needless to mention the pleasures of wing shooting, to recall the never-to-be-forgotten thrill of excitement when a grouse or bunch of quail rises with its whir, or, if the gunner is new at his work to speak of the mortification which follows a poor shot. He who has been out, be it ever so little, will remember these sensations. Proficiency in shooting on the wing is, of course, only...
Just to make your foes at foot-ball all to quail...
...read from Wendell Phillips. Representative W. E. Robinson of New York made a demagogical speech whose chief tenor was the condition of the American eagle, "with its beak filled with Lowell garbage." "But the American eagle had been aroused from her ignoble slumber, and the British lion must quail before her" - and further edifying eloquence of a like sort...