All 5 Uses of

quell
in
Middlemarch

Fred's mind, on the other hand, was busy with an anxiety which even his ready hopefulness could not immediately quell.†
Chpt 1 *

There had been no clashing of temper between Dorothea and her husband since that little explosion in Rome, which had left such strong traces in her mind that it had been easier ever since to quell emotion than to incur the consequence of venting it.†
Chpt 3

The small bequests came first, and even the recollection that there was another will and that poor Peter might have thought better of it, could not quell the rising disgust and indignation.†
Chpt 4

But this power of generalizing which gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals, was immediately thwarted by Lydgate's memory of wondering impressions from the behavior of another woman—from Dorothea's looks and tones of emotion about her husband when Lydgate began to attend him—from her passionate cry to be taught what would best comfort that man for whose sake it seemed as if she must quell every impulse in her except the yearnings of faithfulness and compassion.†
Chpt 6

Definitions:

(1) (quell)
suppress or stop completely
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

While quell still means to suppress or stop, in Shakespeare's time, it had a more violent connotation--often meaning to murder or to eliminate someone or something.