stilled

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Stilled by the power of slumber the son of Nestor lay, but honeyed sleep had not yet taken in her arms Telemakhos.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Stilled   For ever was the beating of her heart.

From The Fall of Troy by Way, Arthur Sanders

Vanished the hunter strong, Stilled was the husking song; No corn fields stretched along       In green Hochelaga.

From Verses and Rhymes By the Way by McDougall, Margaret Moran Dixon

The flame within thy fanes grew cold, Stilled by the foeman's swarming hordes.

From The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe by Various

Just to cease from strife, love, And from grieving; Let the swift world pass us, You and me, Stilled from all aspiring,— Sinai nor Parnassus Longer worth desiring, Launa Dee!

From Songs from Vagabondia by Hovey, Richard