The result was disastrous to the radicals because the tumult was quelled by the courage and presence of mind shown by Boissy d'Anglas, a calm and determined moderate.
Buonaparte's company was sent among others, but those earlier on the ground had been active, several workmen had been killed, and the disturbance was already quelled when he arrived.
It might be love to the child that had quelled his sullen spirit, or he might really have cherished an affection for us deeper than his ugly temper would allow him to show.
But it was momentary--he quelledthe passion with a fierce and savage energy, as he said sternly, "Promise!
At this sally there was a broad rustic laugh, which, however, Mr. Raby quelled with one glance of his eye.
Young Little ran toward the door; but, when he got near it, he paused, and a dire misgiving quelled him.
Henry had thus quelled this dangerous rebellion with great spirit and address, but he was still surrounded by dangers; he still found himself pursued by all the evils and annoyances of a usurper.
Indignation quivered on her lip; but it was quelled by the secret voice which warned her that she must not quarrel with him.
Thus Abascal quelledthe rebellion in Quito, stemmed the tide of Argentine invasion, and reconquered Chile.
In Potosí a mutiny broke out among the troops, which was quelled by General Maroto.
When they were quelled the country remained at peace for many long years.
Bolívar prudently quelled this attempt at sedition by counsels and threats conveyed privately to the conspirators.
The news of Boyacá had fallen as a thunderbolt among the disaffected, and his return quelled them utterly.
Claxon was standing coatless before the door in full enjoyment of the late afternoon air; his wife beside him, at sight of Gregory, quelled a natural impulse to run round the corner of the house from the presence of strangers.
It had not followed upon any imprudeuce, as Mrs. Lander pathetically called Clementina to witness when her pain had been so far quelled that she could talk of her seizure.
Before setting out, he quelled with the utmost cruelty a sedition of the Pharisees, slaying nearly 3000 of them.
In the night-time he quelled the lusts of the flesh by immersing himself in flowing water; he overcame the temptations of avarice and pride by lavishly giving to the poor, and tending them at his own table.
This was the peril of the Cimbri and Teutones, which Marius quelled by the waters of the Durance and then among the hills of Piedmont.
Her dauntlessness wasquelled by fatigue, and by the chill weight of these eyes fixed upon her.
Her spirit was up; the fear that hitherto had quelled her before him fell from her.
Attila quelled this revolt; and having thus consolidated his power, and having punished the presumption of the Eastern Roman emperor by fearful ravages of his fairest provinces, Attila, A.
Rebellion in Scotland in favour of the House of Stuart: finally quelled by the battle of Culloden in the next year.
Frequent risings of the English against him, which are quelledwith merciless rigour.
But you told me he quelled a mutiny single-handed when you were only a few days out.
It sounds rhetorical to say so, but it was not quelled in peasoup or tisane.
Meanwhile the insurrection, like all its historical forerunners, has been quelled in blood.
By the pact of Andelot in 587 Childebert was recognized as Gontran's heir, and with his uncle's help he quelled the revolts of the nobles and succeeded in seizing the castle of Woewre.
The disturbance was quelled and the malcontents eventually hunted out, but not without losses which included the commissioner of Pre and a European officer of gendarmerie.
Matthias well knew the ascendency of the Protestants all over Bohemia, and that their spirit, once thoroughly aroused, could not be easily quelled by any opposing force he could array.
Matthias, havingquelled the insurrection, was so enraged with the emperor, that he declared war against him, and immediately invaded Austria.
The indignation in the city was great, but the king was too strong to be resisted, and he speedily quelled all movements of tumult.
A mutiny, headed by Bernal Diaz, a man high in authority, was detected and quelled before the mutineers could effect their intention of seizing the ships.
He made a momentary show of haughty, indignant refusal, but a movement of my sword quelled the brief revolt in him.
The extreme terror that she showed gave me a sense of his being a formidable antagonist; the prompt response that he had given to my own thrust showed that he was not to be quelled by a mere command.
She was stricken with strange trouble, helpless, quelled by a magnetic power exerted unconsciously.
By this time the lovers had quelled emotion into silence, and could preserve the limits laid down by duty and convention.
Disturbances from foreign enemies he quelled by his lieutenants, without ever going against them in person; nor would he even employ his lieutenants, but with much reluctance, and when it was absolutely necessary.
It was with difficulty that I quelled an imprecation.
It was probably the addition of the psychological element to the physical--the reluctance to encounter new dangers on a mountain which had hitherto inspired a superstitious fear--that quelled further exertion.
There was nothing jubilant in our thoughts or conversation; the character of the work before us quelled presumption.
But the momentary alarm was soon quelled on the return of Lord Glammis and the Master of Crichton, who, by the king's order, had advanced to meet them and reconnoitre.
Indignation even was almost quelledin the shock he received, when one of the students, for the pleasure of sneering at his discomposure, and making a boast of his own superiority to such weakness, uttered a brutal jest.
His mother's trouble quelled the exuberance of Alec's spirits without altering his resolve.
In 1787 he commanded the troops who quelled the rebellion of Shay and Day.
He immediately repaired to the scene of insubordination and quelled it with only the appearance of force.
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