How To Use Quietus In A Sentence

  • Finally Quietus for string trio makes a satisfying envoi.
  • Maupassant they get their "quietus" from the height, so to speak, of the saddle of a sporting gentleman. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
  • His quietus is a great loss not only to the Tatas but also to the whole nation.
  • Quietus is a short form of the term quietus est or abeinde recessit quietus, the formulae used in the Court of the Exchequer to show that an account has been correctly presented and cleared. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 4
  • In Oslo, August 31st, the Norwegian central character, Anders, is a drug addict from a similar background who makes his quietus after a day in the national capital. Oslo, August 31st – review
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  • The opening sequence paints a portrait of the quietus and quaintness of suburbia and the stifling boredom it can induce.
  • In a Two-Headed Giant game, if a creature equipped with Quietus Spike would assign combat damage to the defending team, its damage is assigned to only one of the defending players.
  • Then there are those who brim with passion not just for the state-approved quietus, but with fury for those who oppose it.
  • My father's frenzies had been infrequent but terrible and, always followed by a quietus that lasted days, sometimes weeks. COASTLINERS
  • To our no small surprise, very soon after this quietus had been given to bibliomaniacal hopes, the books in question appeared before us in excellent condition. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865
  • The idea of the open Polar Sea then received its "quietus," for nothing but ice is there. Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold
  • Not the bloody quietus of Titus or Hamlet or Braveheart; it wasn't frank enough, nor so wrenching.
  • There’s the respect that makes for so long life, for who would bear the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, the pangs of disprized love, the law’s delay, the insolence of office, and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes, when he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin? Shakespearean costume - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • I think you need to come to terms with the fact that a large number of people in the UK see giving drugs smugglers/dealers their quietus is the way to go - pick me on that one. Army Rumour Service
  • One way in which a language lives and grows is by modifying existing meanings and employing them in new contexts, and it is the poets who contribute most to this process.. bqb As an example from Shakespeare we can take the word quietus which at first sight seems not to lend itself to poetry at all. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 4
  • Might have sent me on the same errand by daylight, mightn’t he? opulento homini hoc servitus dura est, hoc magis miser est divitis servos noctesque diesque assiduo satis superque est, quod facto aut dicto adeost opus, quietus ne sis. Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
  • Coaceffimus ctiam quod burgeft* fes anntiatim proprio eorum oonAdtu, prepofitom et proeo* fiem iibi elegant et deposkajot: pnepofiCtis Tero quietus fit de gablo 'preco de fex denar/Si plaeitum fpe&ana ad Donji' Reports of the proceedings before select committees of the House of commons
  • I doubt it, else he might have already sought without my help the quietus I am about to give him. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD

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