quietus

Example Sentences

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Kg5, and now, with both Black rooks hanging, a simple king move delivers the quietus.

From Washington Times • Nov. 14, 2023

Instead, it was a much quicker quietus after 19.

From Washington Times • Nov. 5, 2019

What’s most disheartening is how unspectacular a quietus it turns out to be.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 29, 2016

In Florida a quietus was apparently put upon the hopes of Senator Underwood when Mr. McAdoo carried the state primary.

From Time Magazine Archive

Custodit preces arature et messis et debet adjuvare ad namia capienda infra hundredum et est quietus de pannagio.'

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul