| He gently stroked the horse's muzzle and whispered to him softly, and the animal quietened almost immediately. |
| But as the shark moves casually past my terror is finally quietened, my body flooded instead by a feeling I can only describe as wonder. |
| Then I quietened my seething spirits with a small bag of fish and chips which I enjoyed while sitting on a bench in the town square. |
| It's not so much that I've quietened down, as that I've channelled my energies into things that are more productive than out-and-out hedonism. |
| As the noise levels grew again, two women came in from the bar area and the whole place quietened down again. |
| He was a bit of a joker, a bit loud and lairy at times but he quietened down once he got into his religion. |
