quietus

"In fact, it would certainly put a quietus on their game."

There was that at the back of her mind which refused quietus.

"Can you not give these bits of iron their quietus?"

Things in a file drawer have had the quietus placed on them for 25 years.

Quietus was a successful military leader and social figure.

This action brought Quietus acclaim and ensured he was well known to the army.

If an account is found to be correct, then the Court issues a quietus to discharge the accountant.

Gradually she led the interview to a quietus, a normality of future projects.

The Quietus called it "probably their best, certainly their most consistent album".

She had lain there stiffening in the quietus of natural death.

It looks as though Armstrong had got his quietus."

It would be so easy to give in to despair; the quietus of hopelessness is tempting.

Maybe the bulldog thought he had a priority in putting a quietus on baggage men.

The second prizewinner performed the killing, so that his quietus was also guaranteed.

To those who were dying in too much pain the Chaplain gave a quietus with a narrow blade.

Go read The Quietus instead if you want inspiring.

My mother, without meaning to, put a quietus on his hopes of sleep even more effectively than this forlorn hour.

Quietus was made governor of Roman Britain in 97 and held the post until 100.

An automatic thundered the single shot that brought quietus to the last of the three assassins.

So he too will seek a remedy beneath the surgeon's knife and receive his quietus for it.

One of the wardens had begun to raise a heavy maul, to give the quietus.

The Quietus also praised the reissue of the album and said :

The Quietus also went on to say that the album, "remains one of this year's most intriguing and divisive listens."

The sire nearly gave me my quietus at Culloden.

People who are old, sick or considered a burden to society are forced to volunteer for a government program known as Quietus.