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I had not had much experience of his classical and devastating silences and had often defended him from the charge; but it was time to see what happened if I talked less. When we got into the room and he had shut the door, I absently selected the only comfortable chair and we sat down next to each other. A long and quelling silence followed the lighting of my cigarette.
These thoughts traveled with the rapidity of light through my brain, as at one glance my eye took in the supremacy of beauty and power which seemed to have alighted from the clouds before me. Power, and the contemplation of power, in any absolute incarnation of grandeur or excess, necessarily have the instantaneous effect of quelling all perturbation. My composure was restored in a moment.
The fourth gun was split from end to end by a burst in the muzzle, and the third was shot to pieces...." The battle-cruisers were recalled just in time so it would appear to save them from annihilation, and Com. von Hase proceeds: "All hands were now busy quelling the fires. Thick clouds of yellow gas still poured from both after turrets, but the flooding of the magazines soon got rid of this.
He received the fugitives at the point of the bayonet, and cut off the heads of the first mutineers who endeavoured to cross. It was in such moments that Hussein showed himself to be above the ordinary stamp of mankind. His energy was admirably calculated for quelling a revolt; but, on the other hand, though he was able to master the confusion of a retreat, he knew not how to avoid it.
The Anglo-German alliance had provoked opposition on the continent instead of quelling it; and Ralph saw more than one threatening piece of news from abroad that hinted at a probable invasion of England should Cromwell's schemes take effect.
At the same time he attributes the success of his own violence in quelling and maltreating his opponents to the providence of God. "I do not write this narrative," he says, "from a motive of vanity, but merely to return thanks to God, who has extricated me out of so many trials and difficulties; who likewise delivers me from those that daily impend over me.
The people of Kentucky and of Maine held conventions looking toward separation. The year 1786 was marked by great uneasiness in what had been supposed to be the steadiest States in the union. In New Hampshire the opposition was directed against the legislature; but General Sullivan, by his courage, succeeded in quelling the threatened insurrection without bloodshed.
He who trusts can understand; he whose mind is set at ease can discover a reason. How otherwise than by rebuking and quelling their anxiety, could those words have made them see what then they saw?
No woman can be required to serve upon any jury. No woman can be called upon by the sheriff or any peace officer to assist in quelling a disturbance or making an arrest. The fifth count in the Suffrage Declaration of Sentiments reads as follows: "He has monopolized nearly all the profitable employments, and from those she is permitted to follow she receives but scanty remuneration."
"Captain Grange will see you right away " the Eysie Cargo-master was beginning when Van Rycke met him with a quelling stare. "If you poachers have anything to say you say it at the Queen and to Captain Jellico," he stated flatly and started on.
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