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  • Okay, so the synopsis had my attention at the first sentence oddly enough, I immediately thought of Winter of Fire by Sherrl Jordan, with the Chosen and Quelled but you review was what really sealed my interest in this book.

    Book Chick City Book Chick City 2009

  • Quelled dissent allows warfare to churn on and bust the budget, and gives monopolistic enterprises a free hand to operate with profligate impunity.

    Randall Amster: The Great Repression: Civil Liberties, the Economy, and a House Mismanaged 2009

  • Argives, Then many wives of the Argives shall tear both cheeks in their mourning; So that a man shall say some time, of the men that came after, ‘Quelled by the spear it perished, the three-coiled terrible serpent,’

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • Quelled by a menace so mysterious, Griffith promised blind obedience; and Kate thanked him, and bade him good night, and ordered him peremptorily to bed.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various

  • Quelled by something in her tone and manner, the old man sank back in his chair, while she, kneeling beside Spike, lifted him in her strong young arms so that he was hidden from the Old Un's bright, piercing eyes.

    The Definite Object A Romance of New York Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • Quelled, and in strange awe they listened, and when the music ceased, unable at once to return to the simple prose of their chambers, they lingered, commenting on the mock taste of the architecture of the dining-hall, and laughing at the inflated inscription over the doorway.

    Mike Fletcher A Novel 1892

  • Quelled by the mystery of his manner, she followed him out and down the stairs.

    A Modern Instance William Dean Howells 1878

  • Quelled by the woes of school and the critical development of his physical constitution, he became thoughtful, dreamed of feeling, and caught a glimpse of new sciences -- positively masses of ideas.

    Louis Lambert Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • Strong symptoms of Mutiny, which is fortunately Quelled by granting

    Poor Jack Frederick Marryat 1820

  • Quelled their bold hopes, when on their watch by night

    The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan William Lisle Bowles 1806

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