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  • adjective Not quelled.

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un- +‎ quelled

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Examples

  • Hence the comparison between the unquelled armed ethnic resistance with the quelled unarmed Burmese street opposition.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Burma Gun Controls: 2007

  • It could not be that she had guessed the truth, or she would not stand like that, with tearless eyes and unquelled courage before her.

    The Small House at Allington 2004

  • Against the latter foe they are at present guaranteed by the quiet of English rule, but the avalanche and the torrent remain unquelled.

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Various

  • They did get us into a car at last, but the riot on the station platform continued unquelled.

    The Promised Land Mary Antin 1915

  • They did get us into a car at last, but the riot on the station platform continued unquelled.

    The Promised Land 1912

  • Brünnhilde suggests, still unquelled, the point is so vital to her;

    The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

  • They did get us into a car at last, but the riot on the station platform continued unquelled.

    The Promised Land Antin, Mary, 1881-1949 1912

  • She laughs, bitterly, while her unquelled pride in her faithless lord mocks: "A single glance of his flashing eye, which even through the lying disguise shed its radiance upon me, and your best courage would fail you!"

    The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

  • The high spirit of the man was still unquelled, he said that by the terms of the treaty this could not be insisted on, but he was at once placed in irons and ordered to be conducted to the camp, followed by a lictor.

    The History of Rome, Vol. III 1905

  • There was no period when that army more constantly exhibited "a spirit yet unquelled and high" than during the fearful experiences of 1864.

    Reminiscences of the Civil War 1904

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