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1. Helen was compelled to try and quell the rising storm, and
2. he have over Tours that he could quell him with a simple
3. He would not be able to quell his apprehension otherwise
4. It was like a plague of cockroaches that had gotten out of control long ago, leaving no remedy in the present to quell their ever-increasing numerical growth and geographic expansion
5. ” She cupped his face in her hands to quell his fears
6. But he needed something to quell the throbbing and he desperately needed to empty his bladder
7. The government thought that this would send us a clear message – live by their terms or not at all, that it would quell the resistance and break my people’s spirits, but it didn’t
8. This time even her calm and mellifluous inflections did not quell the anxiety
9. He looked up at her, trying to quell the odd mix of rage and fear that
10. To quell his anxiety Truman busied himself preparing coffee, and was startled when from a darkened corner came the dry old voice of his grandfather
11. It seemed the dispatch rider had brought us orders to ride north over the mountains to quell a revolt in Tulancingo
12. Mackeller couldn’t quell his frustration any more and his voice went raw with
13. that mighty army, he prayed and said, Blessed are you, O Saviour of Israel, who did quell the violence of the mighty man by the hand
14. tried to quell the ache that had begun in her chest the day before as
15. After a winter sojourn to stir up business and quell a union organizing drive up north, I told my boss that the only hot place in the Duluth-Superior, WI, metropolis was an indoor rink devoted to curling, that occult sport where contestants push a heavy stone toward a far-off goal and team members sweep the ice ahead of the slowly sliding object to ease its course to bump other stones out of a score
16. 30 And when he saw that mighty army he prayed and said Blessed are you O Saviour of Israel who did quell the violence of the mighty man by the hand of your servant David and gave the host of strangers into the hands of Jonathan the son of Saul and his armour bearer; 31 Shut up this army in the hand of your people Israel and let them be confounded in their power and horsemen: 32 Make them to be of no courage and cause the boldness of their strength to fall away and let them quake at their destruction: 33 throw them down with the sword of them that love you and let all those who know your name praise you with thanksgiving
17. Needing only direction to quell their panic, they threw themselves into the prescribed actions with a frenzy akin to a drowning person grasping at a nearby branch
18. desperately fought to quell the quaking fear that clutched at his gut at the thought of what
19. Needing only direction to quell their panic, they threw themselves
20. Due to the carefully planned chaos, misinformation and unrest in the north-eastern territories all major Tanarian units had been recalled to try and quell the unrest
21. This morning they would issue a public statement designed to quell the growing friction between the church lobby and the majority of the public
22. Quell: Nigga where you at cause we in front her house
23. Delvin and Quell had about five pancakes cause they were high as a kite
24. Alexis and Kayla sat by Quell and Levi
25. She offered courses of mildly educative persuasion, with names innocent enough to quell the curiosity of inquisitive spouses
26. If at all possible I will help you wood trolls to restore order to your State and quell the movements of the goblins and Lykanthros who remain
27. I wish we could move directly on the Abyssal Cairn but, based on your statement describing the tactical difficulties you faced, would fore-go attempting to quell the activities of the Guild of Assassins at its core
28. Now to quell the fighting in Sri Lanka
29. ‘The truth, if there is ever any truth, has been modified by myths concocted by the unbroken line of Mages to quell riots and maintain order
30. handles to quell her struggles
31. It did not however, quell his adventurous streak
32. Malcolm breathed deeply to quell his nausea
33. He smoked some cigarettes to quell his nerves as he observed the surroundings
34. They both agreed that if they took up such a job, it would quell their outings during the week and would enable them to save money
35. He realized that his attempt to quell this uprising was futile
36. Police thanks and appreciation were not enough to quell the nervousness that grew in the Travis home in the weeks that followed
37. We could do nothing to quell the rumours, for the simple reason that they were true
38. When the king did this, it was met with full disapproval from the clans, and as the king deployed knights to quell their protests, the clans retaliated with attacks
39. These philosophies introduced the concepts of mythology that helped quell some of the old “blood” feuds that arose out of traditional scripture
40. Even the thought of being picked up again, hours later, did nothing to quell the emotion
41. could from her majestic intentions cause quell,
42. But still the gods couldn’t quell the differences between the city-states, or poleis, and
43. spatial limit to telepathy, or because he had the means to go to her in a moments notice if he chose to act? And could Troi quell his thirst so he would have one less distraction, or would it just make his wanting worse? He touched his left wrist as he resisted the rogue Troi’s offer
44. was actually making headway, but not fast enough to quell Tam’s anxiousness
45. His silence had only arisen as he had searched for a way to quell the painful memories that had recently floated up, unbidden, to the surface of his mind
46. Andrew did another about-face, unable to quell the curiosity
47. Byron attempted to quell the painful constriction of his stomach, to put his mind to other things, his reason for being here for a start
48. that this would quell his father’s intimate display
49. Therefore it was to me she came when she discovered her pregnancy and told me that the father could not be Gorlan because the night they were to have consummated their marriage a message had come saying that one of the outlying tribes was in revolt and he had gone to quell it
50. to quell his sense of desperation
1. Thus certain questions remained unanswered, anxiety not entirely quelled
2. The contradictory-connectedness of the appearance-object relationship can be quelled by
3. which quickly quelled her concerns
4. The mind-cane flared up but Simon quelled it with a glance
5. His mother gasped and his father took one step forward but the frown on the taller man’s face quelled any action he might have taken
6. It was spring; as the days lengthened, young men murmured, talked more than they should and every now and again riots would need to be quelled
7. " I quelled an urge to hit him
8. On Thursday her anxiety was quelled when he came to the front window that she had already opened, carrying a white envelope in his outstretched hand
9. exdusively responsible for them, would racism have been quelled? Certainly this
10. Or be quelled by the hazy mist
11. But the riots swelled with little planning and were quelled with little injury
12. Locke tried to be angrier with his partner, but the prospect of a meeting with Hamilton quelled it
13. He quelled the small pang of anxiety at her words
14. turmoil in his head, quelled the burgeoning knot
15. When the ruckus had quelled to a relatively mild squawking of radios, milling FBI agents and curious onlookers, Mitch was brought to his feet
16. Normally, my meals were collected from plasma centers, which quelled my hunger to a point, but it still wasn’t nearly as satisfying as warm blood
17. It was the second time within days that she’d been called special and she quelled her annoyance at it
18. The enormous cost of building huge highways made no economic sense except as a military defense plan to make sure the Federal; Govt could transport its troops anywhere quickly if by some stretch of the imagination there happened to be an uprising which needed to be quelled
19. He looked at her then and some part of Maria’s soul quelled at the sight of the intensity in his eyes
20. These and a thousand other fragments flitted through my mind as the sun crawled up the ladder of the hours and misery was quelled by the promise of the sea
21. She quelled the gnawing in her stomach with a small strip
22. Love, little by little, was quelled by absence; regret stifled beneath habit; and this incendiary light that had empurpled her pale sky was overspread and faded by degrees
23. When I first looked into his face, I perceived that he had got intelligence of the catastrophe; and a foolish notion struck me that his heart was quelled and he prayed, because his lips moved and his gaze was bent on the ground
24. His noble spirit will not be quelled until he either slays or is slain; or until he hears the voice of the shepherd, that is, reason, bidding his dog bark no more
25. Catherine quelled her lamentations also, took a seat opposite, and looked solemnly into the fire
26. pit, quelled and abashed, was now recovered to the top of his condition,
27. soon have strength to have quelled his rough assault, or put him out of
28. But it had to be done, and he quelled his conscience
29. Louie knew that they couldn’t survive for long without food, but he quelled the thought
30. The torn, split, wounded girl cries, struggles, invokes me to her rescue, and endeavours to get from under the young savage, or shake him off, but alas! in vain: her breath, might as soon have strength to have quelled his rough assault, or put him out of his course
31. “Mr Peevie,” said I, when we were cozily seated by ourselves in his little back parlour—the mistress having set out the gardevin and tumblers, and the lass brought in the hot water—“I do not think, Mr Peevie, that in all my experience, and I am now both an old man and an old magistrate, that I ever saw any thing better managed than the manner in which ye quelled the hobleshow this morning, and therefore we maun hae a little more of your balsamic advice, to make a’ heal among us again; and now that I think o’t, how has it happent that ye hae never been a bailie? I’m sure it’s due both to your character and circumstance that ye should take upon you a portion of the burden of the town honours
32. Impotent rage quelled what little fear was
33. A wave of inexplicable anger washed over me, which I immediately quelled
34. Discipline prevailed: in five minutes the confused throng was resolved into order, and comparative silence quelled the Babel clamour of tongues
35. His form was of the same strong and stalwart contour as ever: his port was still erect, his hair was still raven black; nor were his features altered or sunk: not in one year’s space, by any sorrow, could his athletic strength be quelled or his vigorous prime blighted
36. The oppressing sight, and especially the stifling atmosphere, quelled even his energy, and he went from cell to cell, saying nothing but “All right” to the inspector’s remarks about what prisoners there were in each cell
1. resilient; that, in spite of the quelling designs of radical feminism, inevitably reasserts itself (regretfully, I might add) later on in life as they (gradually) approach the margins of their child-bearing years
2. Dorian cast her a quelling look
3. Quelling the urge to fill the silence that followed, his attention shifted back to Moses and his brother Aaron
4. Quelling the urge to fill the silence that followed, his
5. center, I wouldn’t be here now,” she pointed out, quelling
6. If these Qualinesti Elves share a common cause with us then I should have little difficulty in convincing them to send a delegation of their kin to aid us in quelling the Guild of Assassins
7. As he seated himself and took his first bite, enjoying the feeling of the food quelling his hunger, his moment of quasi-rest during which his mind was focused only on his meal and temporarily free of contemplation of complex theories was abruptly interrupted by the entrance of Captain Higgins
8. The smell of steamed rice and spices created a satisfying aroma that alone did wonders for quelling their voracious appetites
9. When he did remember, he sat up suddenly, and then fell back, writhing in agony and quelling the nausea that threatened to erupt
10. He was not bold, I say; and after that one quelling glance from the young saint's eyes did not dare speak again for a long while
11. Lamond DeBourbon, a knight of substantial means, paid her ransom, thus quelling the disparity between the sides
12. intention of quelling his hunger
13. Countless millions of years of Darwinian evolution did not fail him; the primal instinct to survive came to the fore and, quelling his panic, took control
14. Delphi sent him a quelling look, then put on a smile and posed for the shot
15. The latter, sure of quelling the tempest when the waves became too violent, allowed them to rise to a certain pitch that he might be revenged on the importunate Andrea, and besides it would afford him some recreation during the long day
16. once quelling the storm within her, she sat down and began talking to their guest
17. be spared were busy quelling the flames that sprang up in many places
18. I had command at Portland, and at the fort near Boston, and while in commission, I was employed in quelling a meeting or insurrection among the soldiery, and during my continuance in office I gave general satisfaction
1. Ralph quells the bubble of laughter that rises to his throat and lies with the aplomb of a true Tregannon and Overlord
2. quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion