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  • Louie knew that they couldn't survive for long without food, but he quelled the thought.†   (source)
  • ARMY QUELLS STRIKE VIOLENCE†   (source)
  • By the time he'd moved her clear of the doorway, the mash of his hands against her fur had quelled something in him and he wound up on his knees while she scented up and down his wet clothes.†   (source)
  • He pushes his hands against his stomach in an attempt to quell the cramps invading his guts.†   (source)
  • The Riots in Baltimore, particularly West Baltimore, got so bad that "Little" Melvin Williams, a legendary drug dealer and one of the most powerful men in the city at the time, was recruited by the mayor to help quell the violence.†   (source)
  • It waits around for their return, trying to quell the panic rising in it.†   (source)
  • He'd hoped his journey to Endovier would quell that boredom, and that he'd be glad to return home, but he found home to be the same.†   (source)
  • The resentful fire and personal anguish had been quelled somehow beneath a deeper, watery cool.†   (source)
  • He put his hand flat upon the surface, as though to quell it.†   (source)
  • "I can answer," Sansa said quickly, to quell her prince's anger.†   (source)
  • Torin pursed his lips, and the haunting worry in his gaze quelled Kai's anger.†   (source)
  • Then quelling disgust, I began mouth to mouth resuscitation and external heart massage—what did they call it?†   (source)
  • Artemis tried to quell the excitement rising in his chest.†   (source)
  • She lulled them to sleep with advice on how to quell their hunger pangs.†   (source)
  • Terror tried to rise up and he quelled it.†   (source)
  • He saw Brom carry the saddle to Saphira and tried to quell his uneasiness.†   (source)
  • Other banks came to Nebraska Savings' rescue, and the so-called "children's run" was quelled.†   (source)
  • It took Mae great effort to quell their noise and allow her to speak.†   (source)
  • I'm merely trying to quell the unrest.†   (source)
  • Downstairs, he found enough food in Basta's kitchen to quell the hunger that had been gnawing like a worm at the walls of his stomach.†   (source)
  • A transparent plastic tube led from under the worn cotton sheet that covered Kuttappen to a bottle of yellow liquid that caught the shaft of light that came in through the door, and quelled a question that had been rising inside Rahel.†   (source)
  • I'm breathing deeply, trying to slow my heart rate, to quell the panic rising in my chest.†   (source)
  • I ask her if she thinks medication might help quell those voices.†   (source)
  • "Magnus would never let that happen," Alec said, with a quelling glance at his sister.†   (source)
  • "Then what are you doing here?" she asked, unable to quell the panic creeping into her voice.†   (source)
  • Jim and Jaime quelled it in a typical pih way—Jim arranged a university scholarship for the ringleader, which took him away to Mexico.†   (source)
  • There was an uprising, and we had to quell it as cleanly as possible.†   (source)
  • "Thanks for saying that to Dad," I said to Moody, trying to find any means of quelling the rising storm within him.†   (source)
  • This was done in part to try to quell the more irresponsible acts of terrorism then being committed by Pogo.†   (source)
  • Parents, ever-present shade, dimming my sparkle, kryptonite to quell my bid for superpower.†   (source)
  • Norah felt her daughter again, a presence just beyond sight, and quelled a sudden urge to run upstairs and check on Paul.†   (source)
  • If it was gun control and clever police strategies and better-paying jobs that quelled crime—well then, the power to stop criminals had been within our reach all along.†   (source)
  • I thought about my fifteen-month sentence, which did nothing to quell my panic.†   (source)
  • Bob was slipping away, and yet that knowledge couldn't quell her happiness at the sight of Gus and his friends.†   (source)
  • Luc was trying to reconcile with Melanie, but his intentions weren't good, while Brock was back on the job, chasing a story about the dirty underside of fashion with his trusty Nikon and a sense of justice that no injury, not even a rock to the head in Guatemala, could quell.†   (source)
  • "There are restless forces growing in the lands to the north and the south, which must be quelled if we're to unite against the Winter King.†   (source)
  • The overseer's lights were lit at Freniere; he was trying to quell the excitement of the runaway slaves and his own.†   (source)
  • He arrived back in the city in the middle of the afternoon, but went directly to his club, where he played a few hands of poker and dined, without successfully quelling his anxiety and impatience.†   (source)
  • A number of men who were not moaning were now giggling openly, and there was no telling how far the unorganized insurrection of moaning might have gone if General Dreedle himself had not come forward to quell it, stepping out determinedly in the center of the platform directly in front of Major Danby, who, with his earnest, persevering head down, was still concentrating on his wrist watch and saying, '…twenty-five seconds… twenty… fifteen…'†   (source)
  • The winds kicked up, beginning to quell the flames, even though it was too late.†   (source)
  • A local Moravian pastor, Ewald Shewkirk, writing in his diary of such "very unhappy and shocking scenes," noted also, "Some of the generals, and especially Putnam, and their forces had enough to do to quell the riot and make the mob disperse."†   (source)
  • This time they seemed determined to quell the violence, and moved into violent areas.†   (source)
  • C#28 CHAPTER 28 Friday, July 15–Saturday, July 16 Judge Iversen tapped his pen on the edge of his table to quell the murmuring that had arisen in the wake of Teleborian's departure.†   (source)
  • If this tall, proud woman, this woman who was very particular about her friends, who slipped into church with unequaled elegance, who could quell a roustabout with a look, if she were really custard, then there was a chance that Nel was too.†   (source)
  • Despite the Red Branch's assurances, Charles could not quell his fear that some small faction of the guild had survived and would seek vengeance.†   (source)
  • They quelled that small inconsequential revolt with ease as they dispersed us into smaller groups, shivering along the gallery.†   (source)
  • The ship—and my stomach—are buffeted by waves even my magic cannot quell.†   (source)
  • And leaving right then would also serve to quell any suspicions, at least at the level we were working.†   (source)
  • The local militia and Federal troops were called in to quell this unplanned and unrehearsed insurrection.†   (source)
  • Believing that catching Lincoln's killer will help quell the unrest, Secretary of War Stanton spends Saturday expanding the search, making the hunt for Lincoln's killers the biggest criminal dragnet in American history.†   (source)
  • The giant Drizzt had gored lay squirming on the floor, clutching its throat in a futile attempt to quell the flow of its lifeblood.†   (source)
  • So you'll start with enough police—not combat troops but military police used to quelling civilians with a minimum of fuss.†   (source)
  • The move was on, but it was quelled by another voice: "No, let's don't.†   (source)
  • Perhaps because my coming assignation with the divine Lapidus had caused me to oscillate between rapture and apprehension, I tried to quell both emotions by drinking several cans of beer—thus violating my self-imposed rule about alcohol during daylight or working hours.†   (source)
  • Almost beyond hearing he thought he caught, high and far up in the heavens, a cry: faint, but heart-quelling, cruel and cold.†   (source)
  • "Jay, she said softly, a little quelled by this impatient look, "I don't mean to hurry you, but things'll get cold.†   (source)
  • [With a political orator's gesture he points to DUDARD, quelling him with a look.†   (source)
  • Well, I thought, if I have not asked, it is because I have not dared; there is a look about you that is quelling, and your manner forbids such talk.†   (source)
  • 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.   (source)
    quelled = stopped or suppressed
  • 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.   (source)
    quelling = stopping or suppressing
  • Needless to say, this preemptively quells any impulse I may have had to ask about the drinking.†   (source)
  • President Snow goes on to tell us what happened in the previous Quarter Quells.†   (source)
  • If the parabatai spell is harmless— "Is it?" said Cleophas, but Dolores shot her a quelling look.†   (source)
  • "Maia, no," Bat said; she shot him a quelling look.†   (source)
  • "Right," Isabelle said, and gave Jace a quelling look.†   (source)
  • It was Isabelle, eager; Magnus shot her a quelling look.†   (source)
  • The infusion of lactated Ringer's solution had successfully raised her blood pressure and quelled her throbbing headache.†   (source)
  • But as I listened more closely I realized that she was fitfully crying, though in quelled gasps, as if she were trying to hush herself.†   (source)
  • Eragon quelled the desire to reach up and finger the curved tips of his ears, a habit he had fallen into.†   (source)
  • But they intervened also in communities where there had been no killings, thereby introducing the very violence that they were supposed to be quelling.†   (source)
  • And there was a serenity to her expression which I could not decide on, whether it was the face of someone simply a little tired or quelling a sadness.†   (source)
  • Many of the incidents indicated to me that the police, rather than quelling violence, were fomenting it.†   (source)
  • She came to believe that she had lost her capacity to love, and that the burning desire of her flesh had been quelled forever.†   (source)
  • Brent and Schermont had done a masterful job in quelling the panic, but even with the substantial gains in organization, the initial shock of the sudden and deadly invasion had left most of the survivors of Caer-Kiong and Caer-Dineval in a state of utter despair.†   (source)
  • He liked swearing, and the memory of the hot wind on his face, and the way it quelled, for the moment anyway, this quiet rage.†   (source)
  • In the end, the only thing that quelled his doubts was when Eragon removed Glaedr's heart of hearts from the saddlebags and introduced the dragon to the four of them.†   (source)
  • Maybe I was, he said, the strangeness of his answer quelling his mother's protests, fixing Paul in his place on the stairs.†   (source)
  • I asked her not to make a scene of it, and I could see that she was about to shout out but then just as quickly she quelled herself-a trick perhaps that she had gleaned from me-and whispered sharply that if I wanted to wait I had better be willing to talk about adoption again.†   (source)
  • He thought about opening another one, quelled the longing, allowed himself one more mouthful of water, then pulled the insect hood of the hammock down over his face and fastened it under the chest belt.†   (source)
  • Soon there was great peril of fire behind the wall, and all who could be spared were busy quelling the flames that sprang up in many places.†   (source)
  • What she saw even by the decorous standards of Brooklyn College and the forties was hardly shocking, and Sophie was not so much shocked as fiercely agitated, as if the swift and desperate sensuality of the little scene had the power to stir up embers of a fire within her which she thought had been almost forever quelled.†   (source)
  • After that, it won't be long before the Capitol begins gearing up for the Quarter Quell.†   (source)
  • "Where you going?" he asked, unable to quell his curiosity.†   (source)
  • Rage, wild, random, and impossible to quell, began to consume him.†   (source)
  • Cinder leaned back against the chair, gripping its arms to quell her shaking.†   (source)
  • Or quell the loneliness he felt being moved from one relative to the next?†   (source)
  • However, Capricorn raised his hand to quell the murmur that had arisen.†   (source)
  • She was his fastest, but he'd never been able to quell the wildness within her.†   (source)
  • "Yes, thank you, Phineas," said Dumbledore quellingly.†   (source)
  • He still had about him the aura of rage that even murder cannot quell.†   (source)
  • Even before the Quarter Quell, people were starting to stock up on scarce supplies.†   (source)
  • In your very first year of being a victor, you get to be a mentor in a Quarter Quell!†   (source)
  • The victors locked hand in hand the night before the Quarter Quell.†   (source)
  • And all the stylists from the Quarter Quell are dead," says Venia.†   (source)
  • That would make it the second Quarter Quell.†   (source)
  • How can I mind when she was almost tortured to death by Snow after the Quarter Quell?†   (source)
  • Whoever devised the Quarter Quell system had prepared for centuries of Hunger Games.†   (source)
  • It's like I'm back in the Quarter Quell, with Beetee giving Johanna and me that coil of wire.†   (source)
  • So if he's all-powerful, why doesn't he change the Quell?†   (source)
  • Are you planning the Quarter Quell Games already?†   (source)
  • "The night before the Quarter Quell…well, who ever thought we'd see you again?"†   (source)
  • After the anthem, they show President Snow drawing the envelope for the second Quarter Quell.†   (source)
  • At least, I seem to remember her swimming around some in the Quarter Quell.†   (source)
  • Is it possible that this was really the Quarter Quell written down seventy-five years ago?†   (source)
  • Since I hadn't warned you before the Quarter Quell, I should've shut up about how Snow operates.†   (source)
  • The way she kissed you in the Quarter Quell…well, she never kissed me like that.†   (source)
  • " "So this was before the Quell?" says Caesar.†   (source)
  • "And now we honor our third Quarter Quell," says the president.†   (source)
  • Well, after the Quarter Quell announcement.†   (source)
  • Effie sent us her tape, among others, to prepare for the Quarter Quell.†   (source)
  • After all, what is this Quarter Quell but…what was it President Snow read from the card?†   (source)
  • There was a plan to break us out of the arena from the moment the Quell was announced.†   (source)
  • She saw only the need for "the wisest and most vigorous measures to quell and suppress" the revolt.†   (source)
  • It is important that we quell them before they cause harm.†   (source)
  • Even the royal herald beating on the floor with his staff did little to quell the noise.†   (source)
  • I thought if I survived the plebe system, it would quell all doubts about my masculinity.†   (source)
  • "And too close to Valyria," shouted Quell-on Humble.†   (source)
  • I realize that the men and Sherrie want to quell the notion.†   (source)
  • Nor could loutish self-gratification quell this imperious, feverish desire.†   (source)
  • Tonight, inside this dimly lit tunnel, Robert Langdon followed Warren Bellamy through a construction zone, trying to quell his own deepening concern for Katherine.†   (source)
  • Before the Quell, I brought it here from the old house, thinking its presence might be of comfort to my mother and sister when I was dead.†   (source)
  • He opened it and said, "My text for today is taken from the twenty-first chapter of Isaiah, verse six: For thus hath the Lord said unto me,
    Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth."
    Jean Louise made a sincere effort to listen to what Mr. Stone's watchman saw, but in spite of her efforts to quell it, she felt amusement turning into indignant displeasure and she stared straight at Herbert Jemson throughout the service.†   (source)
  • He'd refused to lie on the pavement, but even if he could have brought himself to do so, even if he could quell the panic about his situation, his family, his home, the uninterrupted drone of the engine would have kept him awake.†   (source)
  • Bellamy thrashed against the arms holding him, unable to quell his rage as the implication of Wells's words sank in.†   (source)
  • Kochi had labored for years to sell dots to the world, and as I understood his motives, he felt he had to quell the bad publicity Farmer had begun stirring up.†   (source)
  • To quell local suspicions, arrangements had been made for the vice minister of justice, who was in charge of Russia's prisons, to come to Tomsk and endorse the project and pih's new role in it, in front of tv cameras.†   (source)
  • The one where I lived during those last precious days before my first Hunger Games and the Quarter Quell.†   (source)
  • She stands and kisses me on the cheek as if nothing has occurred since our last meeting, the night before the Quarter Quell.†   (source)
  • It's the first time since they announced the Quarter Quell that he's offered me any sort of affection.†   (source)
  • "During the Quarter Quell, Octavia and Flavius had to quit because they couldn't stop crying over me going back in.†   (source)
  • But in school I remember hearing that for the second Quarter Quell, the Capitol demanded that twice the number of tributes be provided for the arena.†   (source)
  • "That's right, this year will be the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Hunger Games, and that means it's time for our third Quarter Quell!"†   (source)
  • In preparation for the Quell, I saw a tape where Beetee, who was still a boy, connected two wires that electrocuted a pack of kids who were hunting him.†   (source)
  • Before I go down, I pause at the top of the stairs, feeling slightly embarrassed about the way I've handled the news of the Quarter Quell.†   (source)
  • The sixteen-year-old boy who won the second Quarter Quell must have had people he loved--family, friends, a sweetheart maybe--that he fought to get back to.†   (source)
  • Beetee questions the legality of the Quell in his nervous, twitchy way, wondering if it's been fully examined by experts of late.†   (source)
  • I can't help laughing because it's funny, and it's extra funny because it makes Boggs look so uncomfortable, and I'm happy because Finnick actually sounds like the guy I met at the Quarter Quell.†   (source)
  • But to make things even worse, this is the year of the Seventy-fifth Hunger Games, and that means it's also a Quarter Quell.†   (source)
  • His earlier incarnations--the decadent Capitol heartthrob I met before the Quell, the enigmatic ally in the arena, the broken young man who tried to help me hold it together--these have been replaced by someone who radiates life.†   (source)
  • My mind wanders to the wolflike creatures in the first arena, the monkeys in the Quarter Quell, the monstrosities I've witnessed on television over the years, and I wonder what form these mutts will take.†   (source)
  • "So, Peeta, what was it like when, after all you've been through, you found out about the Quell?" asks Caesar.†   (source)
  • After they've exhausted the topic of the Quarter Quell, my prep team launches into a whole lot of stuff about their incomprehensibly silly lives.†   (source)
  • As soon as the Quarter Quell was over--as soon as I had been lifted from the arena--the electricity in District 12 was cut, the televisions went black, and the Seam became so silent, people could hear one another's heartbeats.†   (source)
  • Really, if there's one thing I don't have time for, it's worrying about how the Quarter Quell will affect the mood in the Capitol.†   (source)
  • "It's too bad about this Quell thing.†   (source)
  • They can't tear their overlarge eyes away, even when President Snow begins to speak from his balcony, welcoming us all to the Quell.†   (source)
  • Surely the creators of the Quarter Quell never anticipated such love forming between the victors and the Capitol.†   (source)
  • When the laws for the Games were laid out, they dictated that every twenty-five years the anniversary would be marked by a Quarter Quell.†   (source)
  • Even though they announced the Quarter Quell the night of the photo shoot, people still voted for their favorite dress, and this was the winner.†   (source)
  • And for the first time, I distance myself from the personal tragedy that has consumed me since they announced the Quell.†   (source)
  • In a way, it's a good thing Peeta and I will both be available as mentors during the Quell, because it's a sure bet that Haymitch will be wasted.†   (source)
  • And that's the best-case scenario, if I'm able to eliminate the rest of the field, including myself, and get Peeta crowned as the winner of the Quarter Quell.†   (source)
  • He reads from the square of paper in the same onerous voice he used for ours, informing Panem that in honor of the Quarter Quell, there will be twice the number of tributes.†   (source)
  • And Chaff, who comes right on her heels, insists the president could change the Quell if he wanted to, but he must not think it matters much to anyone.†   (source)
  • I do not see a girl, or even a woman, but some unearthly being who looks like she might make her home in the volcano that destroyed so many in Haymitch's Quell.†   (source)
  • If anything, they're less ready than before the Quarter Quell announcement, because the following morning another hundred Peacekeepers arrived on the train.†   (source)
  • Of course before the Quell.†   (source)
  • "It's the only Quell we have.†   (source)
  • "THE QUELL".†   (source)
  • Their revolt had taken years to quell and claimed the life of the Lord of Winterfell and hundreds of his sworn swords.†   (source)
  • All the girls talk of touching their men-of pleasing them, if for no other reason in an effort to quell their desires and protect their own virginity, that most sacred of marriage rites.†   (source)
  • Eragon absorbed Gannel's words, accepting the clan chief's sincerity but unable to quell a simple question:How does he know?†   (source)
  • It left her shoulders uncovered, and every time she felt the ends of her hair tickle the bare skin there, she had to quell the urge to hunt for a cardigan or hoodie to wrap herself in.†   (source)
  • If we weren't just dealing with post-caste confusion anymore and trying to quell an outright rebellion, three months wasn't enough to fix this.†   (source)
  • The two of them needed each other more than ever, needed their own forever love to quell the pain of such loss.†   (source)
  • I wish to address the cause for such changes and quell the misinformation and rumors that I know are rampant.†   (source)
  • But she's atypically reserving comment as well, and I think I must be sounding something unusual indeed, to quell Ms.†   (source)
  • If that does not quell your doubts, remember that whatever crimes she may have committed while acting as the Hand of Morzan, ultimately your mother sided with the Varden and went to extraordinary lengths to protect you.†   (source)
  • It was recorded by one of the emperor's magicians and tells of a day when they tried to summon a river spirit to quell a flood, but something else appeared … a 'Smiling Man' who caused the waters to recede and showed them how to improve their plantings and their harvests.†   (source)
  • Malan's reply, signed by his private secretary, asserted that whites had an inherent right to take measures to preserve their own identity as a separate community, and ended with the threat that if we pursued our actions the government would not hesitate to make full use of its machinery to quell any disturbances.†   (source)
  • Finally her husband came to beg her to change her clothes and make an appearance in the garden, even if only for ten minutes, to quell the rumors of the guests.†   (source)
  • The uprisings were more of a nuisance than anything, but they still took several months to quell, and they resulted in a number of unexpectedly savage fights, although Eragon and Saphira attempted to settle matters peacefully whenever they could.†   (source)
  • In little fishing towns and great stone keeps alike such a look from Damphair would make maids feel faint and send children shrieking to their mothers, and it was more than sufficient to quell the chain-neck thrall.†   (source)
  • The two years in Tres Marias had helped to quell the rumors, and people had begun to forget, but Trueba knew that it would take a mere trifle, such as the affair of his mother-in-law's head, for the whispers to start up again.†   (source)
  • Quell the old tongue, loosen the lips.†   (source)
  • Rod tightened his grip on his knife and held still, tried to quell the noise of his pounding heart, tried to figure out how he could fight back from a hammock.†   (source)
  • But just as time heals the marsh grasses that wither and perish in the winter cold, so does it quell the storms that often threaten the human soul.†   (source)
  • Again his wife quelled him with a glance.†   (source)
  • Virtue quells the self-centered ego andFIGURE 9.†   (source)
  • INCIPIENT RIOT QUELLED AT 47TH AND HALSTED.†   (source)
  • I should have quelled Guzynski's riot as soon as it broke.†   (source)
  • It quickened his flagging legs, quelled somewhat the tumult and the fierce yapping pack within him and behind.†   (source)
  • Impotent rage quelled what little fear was left in her heart as she stood helpless while they plundered and stole and ruined.†   (source)
  • A few of the Gaelic ones revolted, who were quelled later, but in the main the people of England and the partizans like Robin were glad to settle down.†   (source)
  • If the hounds had turned mutinous, for instance, Lot and his allies would have been ready to ride with Arthur's knights, in quelling what they would have considered a real rebellion.†   (source)
  • And his terror was that of joy quelling fear.†   (source)
  • But she quelled that proud temptation at its birth.†   (source)
  • Juan: you are floored, quelled, annihilated.†   (source)
  • I wreaked the foul deeds, The death-quelling of Danes, e'en as duly behoved.†   (source)
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