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quail at - anticipate with dread or anxiety

look for, look to, anticipate - be excited or anxious about

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I am fond of solitude and love the night, so my resolution to "camp out" was soon taken, and by the time that it was dark I had made my bed of boughs and grasses in a corner of the room and was roasting a quail at a fire that I had kindled on the hearth.

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However, the greatest BWG was estimated for quails fed 0.95% methionine + cysteine diet, being 0.73 methionine + cysteine: lysine ratio for European quail at 35 days of age (FERREIRA et al., 2012b).

Digestible methionine + cysteine: lysine ratios for growing meat-type quails/Relacces de metionina + cisterna: lisina digestiveis para codornas de corte em crescimento

New Mexico is home to three kinds of quail: scaled and Gambel's quail in southeastern and southwestern New Mexico, with a few Mearns quail at higher elevations in the southwest.

2015 pheasant & quail forecast: several states are finally seeing upland bird numbers on the rise

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