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• to quell the tumult of the soul
• A quell of strength over took Robin with each of his words. She was about to fall apart, but Jacob was as brave as a warrior going into battle.
• For a moment their eyes locked, and she felt a quell of anger rise above her apprehension. Reality struck with appalling clarity, yet she could only lie down, partially drugged and untidy as she was from such rough traveling.
• I read on. It will cost two hundred and fifty quid. I felt a quell of alarm, that's quite expensive.
• The strategists had access to a wide array of private polling and information from focus groups; a quell of information stretching back over his years as a state-wide candidate and office holder.
• Other excruciations replaced her namesake's loquacious quells so completely that when, during a lucid interval, she happened to open with her weak little hand a lavabo cock for a drink of water, the tepid lymph replied in its own lingo [...]
• And when they had eaten, and sat resting in a grotto, he was still singing, and she was the goddess of his Muse, — the quell of living waters out of which he drew fresh strength for new lays.
• Yet he did quake and quaver, like to quell.
• Winter's wrath begins to quell.
• However, after quelling Burnley's threat, Southampton failed to build on their growing danger culminating in Tadic's missed penalty.
• The quell of the rebellion raised Justinian to the acme of power.
• to quell grief
• Northward marching to quell the sudden revolt.
• The nation obeyed the call, rallied round the sovereign, and enabled him to quell the disaffected minority.
• An example can be found in the data about the campaigns of Aššur-bān-apli against Arab tribes after the quell of the revolt of Šamaš-šumukīn.
• 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. They occur every twenty-five years, marking the anniversary of the districts' defeat with over-the-top celebrations and, for extra fun, some miserable twist for the tributes.
• Each Martial Law was marked by the quell of civil liberties or human rights.
• The consequences have not been significant in terms of the quell of any of the three drugs into the United States.
• Hu had been supportive of Chiang's role throughout the northern expedition and the quell of southern rebellion.