List of synonyms from "quieted down" to synonyms from "quincunx"
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Definition of the day : « quietus »
- noun defeat
- It was in the second of those rooms that I nearly got my quietus.
- Extract from : « A Thin Ghost and Others » by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James
- Now that's impossible, seeing that the night porter got his quietus also.
- Extract from : « The Slave of Silence » by Fred M. White
- She felt that "she herself might her quietus make with a bare bodkin."
- Extract from : « Linda Tressel » by Anthony Trollope
- Which step should I take first—the quietus, of 'curds-and-whey,' or the courtship?
- Extract from : « The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector » by William Carleton
- I gave in my account about the sick and wounded, in order to have my quietus.
- Extract from : « The Diary of John Evelyn, Volume II (of 2) » by John Evelyn
- To see Jake get his quietus from so unexpected a quarter was a tonic in itself.
- Extract from : « Fighting Byng » by A. Stone
- These ghosts, like the ghosts of Nature's "Laws," are receiving their quietus.
- Extract from : « Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure » by Edward Carpenter
- It might be well said that discipline has received its quietus.
- Extract from : « The Duel » by A. I. Kuprin
- Dr. Finishem has given me my quietus, like an honest fellow.
- Extract from : « The True History of Tom and Jerry » by Charles Hindley
- A fracture of the rope or the falling of a piece of rock might give the explorer his quietus.
- Extract from : « The Jenolan Caves » by Samuel Cook