38 examples of quietus in sentences

quietus Vita dum praesens vegetavit ejus Corporis artus.

There is the pond, however; I can jump into that, I suppose: but how much more decent were it to make one's quietus under the merry greenwood tree with a cord" He stops suddenly, holding his breath; and, almost simultaneously with a sharp, rushing noise in the leaves overhead, something drops upon his shoulder.

When that is finished, some simple thing will give me my quietus.

The panic of 1857, soon followed by the great Civil war, put a quietus on immigration, and left him stranded high on the beach.

Suppose it in material danger (mariners have some superstition about sentiments) of being tossed over in a fresh gale to some propitiatory shark (spirit of Saint Gothard, save us from a quietus so foreign to the deviser's purpose!)

[Sidenote: th'] When he himselfe might his Quietus make

The widow being oppressed, the orphan wrong'd, The taste of hunger, or a tirants raigne, And thousand more calamities besides, To grunt and sweate vnder this weary life, When that he may his full Quietus make, With a bare bodkin, who would this indure, But for a hope of something after death?

Death N. death; decease, demise; dissolution, departure, obit, release, rest, quietus, fall; loss, bereavement; mortality, morbidity.

shoot dead; blow one's brains out; brain, knock on the head; stone, lapidate^; give a deathblow; deal a deathblow; give a quietus, give a coupe de grace.

Lastly, to end him, he cares not when his end comes; he needs not fear his audit, for his quietus is in heaven.

Ex una sola evacuatione furor cessavit et quietus inde vixit.

Nam qui superstitione imbutus est, quietus esse nunquam potest. 6346.

The tiger bounded madly forward, and George gave it its quietus through the spine as it tried to spring up the opposite bank.

[Lusius Quietus was a Moor, himself a leader of the Moors, and had belonged to [Footnote: Some puzzling corruption in the MS.] a troop in the cavalry.

Never mind; old Mark's old Mark; sound in the heart, and sound in the liver, just the same as thirty years ago, and will be till he takes his last quietus est 'And drops into his grassy nest.

trying marchIn the thick of itA wounded officerHeavy shellingI get my "quietus!" CHAPTER XXXI Slowly recoveringField hospitalAmbulance trainBack in England.

CHAPTER XXX RAIN AND MUDA TRYING MARCHIN THE THICK OF ITA WOUNDED OFFICERHEAVY SHELLINGI GET MY "QUIETUS!"

Only last summer jolly Tom Bowers got his quietus for the season by getting hot and wet and cold in one of his splendid Paris linen shirts, and now he wears calico ones whenever he wishes to "appear proper" at Nahant or Newport.

<pb id='465.png' /> Quietus, by Ross Rocklynne, pseud.

Could I even have thought of annihilation, or a total dissolution of soul as well as body, the gloomy thoughts of having no further being, no knowledge of what we hoped for, but an eternal quietus, without life or sense: even that, I say, would have been enough to strike me with horror and confusion!

Combinations have been formed in the past whereby the carriage and price was subject to the control of a few, to the great detriment of the producer; but this wheat oligarchy is now likely to receive its quietus in view of this new and competing outlet to eastern markets by way of Duluth.

Cilo himself they conducted along the Sacred Way, making the palace their destination, where they prepared to give him his quietus.

I cannot here, at a distance from the world and unconcerned in it, help feeling a little satisfaction when my country is successful; yet, tasting its honours and elated with them, I heartily, seriously wish they had their quietus.

The royal conscience was not satisfied, however, with the sophistry of his councilors, and as a quietus to it, the well-meaning ordinances just cited were enacted.

I have put a quietus on all presumptuous hopes in that quarter forever, and now, Miriam, I hand him over to you signed and sealed 'Claude Bainrothe rejected and emancipated by Evelyn Erie, and ready for fresh servitudeapprenticed, in short.'

38 examples of  quietus  in sentences