What is "dispelled"

Usage examples of "dispelled".

By such arts Gallienus softened the indignation and dispelled the fears of his Illyrian general.

These gloomy terrors would indeed have been dispelled by a more intimate acquaintance with the character of their African enemies.

The revolutions of the palace, which left the Western empire without a defender, and without a lawful prince, dispelled the apprehensions, and stimulated the avarice, of Genseric.

The dark cloud, which had been cleared by the Phoenician discoveries, and finally dispelled by the arms of Caesar, again settled on the shores of the Atlantic, and a Roman province was again lost among the fabulous Islands of the Ocean.

But as the strong garrison of Singidunum, which commanded the conflux of the two rivers, might have stopped their passage and baffled his designs, he dispelled their apprehensions by a solemn oath that his views were not hostile to the empire.

The natural suspicions of the husband, conscious of his own chastity, were dispelled by the assurance (in a dream) that his wife was pregnant of the Holy Ghost: and as this distant and domestic prodigy could not fall under the personal observation of the historian, he must have listened to the same voice which dictated to Isaiah the future conception of a virgin.

The return of Cantacuzene dispelled the public consternation: the emperor inclined to peaceful counsels.

Their first apprehensions were dispelled by the victorious sultan, who contented himself with a tribute of twelve thousand ducats.

The sun was shining brightly, but the brutal cold and swirling winds dispelled any warmth the bright rays could impart.

The sounds of the battle in the street rang closer to his alley sanctuary and dispelled his contemplation.

He fired up the forge and began his work at once, laboring through the night until the light of dawn dispelled the charm that was upon him.

Biggrin had given them back the promise of action, though the giant leader's doubts about its decision were far from dispelled by the lusty enthusiasm of the soldiers.

One of his other concerns had been dispelled, for much of the cavern's roof was only a few feet below the daylit surface and the sun found its way in through those parts that were purely ice.

A quick inspection dispelled his fears, for his hands still showed the golden luster of a surface elf.

Any self-important notions that might have occurred to him at Kelnozz's gracious greeting were dispelled a moment later, though, when the masters came out.