Definition of Quelching

1. quelch [v] - See also: quelch

Lexicographical Neighbors of Quelching

queerly
queermos
queerness
queernesses
queers
queest
queests
quegh
queghs
queint
queitite
quelch
quelched
quelches
quelching
quelea
queleas
quell
quellable
quelled
quellenforschung
queller
quellers
quelling
quellio
quellios
quells
quellung

Literary usage of Quelching

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1893)
"Being soaked all through and through, and with water quelching in my boots, like a pump with a l«d bucket, I was only too glad to find Annie's bright face, ..."

2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1866)
"So John was in excellent spirits, quelching along and going pop like a ball of India-rubber, when he came on a weaker ..."

3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1866)
"With the water quelching in his boots (which were worn away to the welting) —for the sky was like the pulp of an orange, and the pavement wanted draining—he ..."

4. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1913)
"Indeed the failure to maintain this genus and a few more doubtful propositions of the same sort, together with the quelching of trinomials, are practically ..."

5. History of the First Maine Cavalry, 1861-1865 by Edward Parsons Tobie (1887)
"... encouragement as they now had — had been of no apparent effect upon the quelching of the rebellion—had not even started the enemy toward the last ditch. ..."

6. The Works of Thomas Jackson, D.D. ...: Sometime President of Corpus Christi by Thomas Jackson (1844)
"... according to the discipline of his country, never the least quelching at it, saying, " It was better to die, than by crying to be discovered. ..."

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