Crossword clues for queller
queller
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Queller \Quell"er\, n.
A killer; as, Jack the Giant Queller. [Obs.]
--Wyclif (Mark vi. 27).One who quells; one who overpowers or subdues.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English cwellere "killer," agent noun from cwellan (see quell).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A killer; as, Jack the Giant Queller. 2 One who quells; one who overpowers or subdues.
Usage examples of "queller".
In preternatural silence the black-clad Queller surveyed the scene, featureless gaze slowly sweeping left and right.
From beneath his great cloak the Queller produced a long and narrow device, about the length and breadth of a musket.
The Queller snapped a lever, pulled a bolt, fingered a whorl, and the lens at the end of the device glowed with poison-coloured light.
Crowd Queller of Sherreen, in the company of his minions, arrived upon the scene.
In the absence of strong leadership, the well-established fear of the Queller reasserted itself, and slivers began peeling off the human mass, to disappear down darkened alleyways.
In any event, you may rest assured that the destruction of all University Square was averted only by the arrival of the Crowd Queller and his men, who stampeded the human herd in time to preserve the lecture halls.
Reparationists as yet willing to risk a confrontation with the Queller of Sherreen.
By the time the Crowd Queller and his followers reached the Eighth District station house, they discovered a scene of bloody carnage.
At their head rode a familiar nightmare figure swathed in black and clawed in steel the Crowd Queller of Sherreen.
The Queller raised and aimed his weapon, sighting along the luminous barrel.
The Queller aimed carefully, pulled a lever, and a poison-coloured spear of light shot from the barrel of his weapon.
As they roiled, shrieking and staggering, shoving and clutching and tearing each other, the Queller fired again, and four more victims fell.
The Queller himself drew a pistol, a weapon absurdly small and toy like.
Truncheon-bearing fists flailed, booted feet swung, and the Queller writhed and twitched briefly, split lips gaping to reveal fashionably emerald-flecked teeth.
And no sign at all of the Crowd Queller, the Royal Guards or the Vonahrish Guard who should have driven off the criminal louts long before they ever set filthy foot upon royal property.