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suppress or stop completely
- Maybe I was, he said, the strangeness of his answer quelling his mother's protests, fixing Paul in his place on the stairs.p. 280.8
- Norah felt her daughter again, a presence just beyond sight, and quelled a sudden urge to run upstairs and check on Paul.p. 46.0
- 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.p. 206.4
There are no more uses of "quell" in The Memory Keeper’s Daughter.
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