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1. There were murmurs of joy from our lads as we thought that we would be out of the attack now but this was quashed as we were told that we would be attacking over the same ground as we did yesterday
2. “Corporal Lamb we have appealed to the C in C to either have the conviction quashed or the death sentence commuted on account of your age
3. It then wound up being hand carried into Ingalls’ HR VP’s office by Pressly and his ACO demanding that my job offer be quashed
4. ” I said to hell with blind ads, asked Ingalls’ GC with whom I had a good rapport because HE had tried to hire me before Navy did, but which job Litton HQ in California quashed, to give me Bill Gorvine’s name and address
5. I was subpoenaed before a grand jury (quashed before my appearance
6. His was not the first attempt to question Catholic orthodoxy, as previous attempts had been made, only to be quashed by the forces of Church and State
7. He'd thought he could fox her but as soon as she brought up the emotional side of things—her feelings—she'd quashed his joke
8. Betty was struck speechless by this, but Brandi wasn't as easily quashed
9. Once the Stalactite Forces have been quashed I will return
10. His dallying with her was quashed up
11. When he’d kissed her cheek, both times, he realized now, the expression that followed the wonder was fear, and it filled her eyes before she quashed it
12. His hopes were quashed when he heard her voice and the familiar sound of crunching echoing in his ear
13. She quashed the emotion and stared at the irate Commodore
14. schemes quashed his dreams of a blissful marital life with
15. Those riots may spread for a while but I believe that they will eventually be quashed in a horrible bloodbath
16. Seeing the young woman’s discomfort at continuing, Lady Jane quashed the subject with, “All’s well that ends well, as they say
17. the capacity to utilize that imaginative power is usually quashed by the parents
18. It is as if, at some point in his childhood, he was so utterly quashed by serious, stern, duty-bound parents that he found the only safe way to proceed through life was to turn his Child off completely
19. He quashed the joke that came to mind as he put the car in gear
20. But his elation was soon quashed by the unexpected reaction of the Pasha! Instead of being delighted that the crime had been solved the Pasha addressed the commander angrily, ‘Are you telling me that a crime that had remained unsolved for months despite the best efforts of the police force has now been resolved within two and a half hours! You must have accepted a bribe from the mayor to provide a cover for his son until I forced your hand
21. Waves of guilt rose swiftly in my heart, but were quashed by
22. I wanted to plunge into the hidden articles, but Valera quashed that idea
23. Sydney didn’t have a problem with Adam because she’d always thought he was kind of cute, and I hadn’t quashed him because he had helped me a lot the day I saw the apparition — and afterward, too, mostly by backing off on his declarations of undying love for me
24. quashed with each gulp of beer, he tried to think
25. She wished that she could nurture them longer, that she could keep them close, but she quashed the feeling
26. Europeans came to be raised on a diet of escapist literature, cultural myths and lies and distortions so obscenely false; the chasm between their Legends and Myths and the actual history of the European Dark Ages was so huge, that all true accounts of that Age disappeared and were quashed and pooh-poohed as being untrue
27. Nole and Bane had drifted in, but another new trial had quashed any lasting affections
28. It is because of them: that most truths have been systematically covered up, quashed, laughed-at, ignored, etc, etc ad nauseum
29. There was a rush of resentment that she quickly quashed
30. He quashed the one outbreak of violence against the Jews and forbade his inner circle to instigate, foment, secretly encourage or plan any attack against the Jews of Germany
31. I quashed my gag reflex, but I still tasted bile at the back of my throat when I said, “I’m sorry I had to be so rough with you, Randy
32. But he quickly quashed the idea
33. Treasury’s hopes of cost savings—avoiding the inflation risk premium by issuing “real” rather than nominal bonds—were soon quashed
34. This ugly canard was quashed, but not before Alexander Pape suffered a comedown among the cognoscenti