"Quelling" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... young King against the Border clans, under the guise of a hunting party, is in part, at least, historic. Pitscottie's History says: "In 1529 James V made a convention at Edinburgh for the purpose of considering the best mode of quelling the Border robbers, who, during the license of his minority and the troubles which followed, had committed many exorbitances. Accordingly, he assembled a flying army of ten thousand men, consisting of his principal nobility and their followers, ...
— Lady of the Lake • Sir Walter Scott
... mother's thought now was for quelling the storm in the turbulent heart of her daughter. Beulah's nature was not one to lend itself to passive submission, nor yet passive resistance. She was the soul of loyalty, but with that loyalty she combined a furious intolerance ...
— The Homesteaders - A Novel of the Canadian West • Robert J. C. Stead
... the table, and ignoring Somers, ran out to the hall, saying something about looking after the surprise for the supper. To my surprise, Somers followed her, not hastily, but rather deliberately, and, quelling an absurd impulse to go, too, I turned to ...
— Vicky Van • Carolyn Wells
... there. She had returned to her eyrie after quelling the racket in the hall, and now she leaned a little forward so that I could ...
— The Jervaise Comedy • J. D. Beresford
... jarred on me more than usual, because I was feeling pretty dashed fed with Jeeves. Over that matter of the mess jacket, I mean. True, I had forced him to climb down, quelling him, as described, with the quiet strength of my personality, but I was still a trifle shirty at his having brought the thing up at all. It seemed to me that what Jeeves wanted ...
— Right Ho, Jeeves • P. G. Wodehouse
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