He complained once more of the Government's failure to utilize the Volunteers and of the Damping effect which had resulted from the non-fulfilment of Mr. Asquith's words.
"John Redmond's Last Years"
Stephen Gwynn
Besides, they proved very useful in Damping young men.
"The Romance of Zion Chapel [3d ed.]"
Richard Le Gallienne
I felt calmer now that I was no longer crawling on hands and knees, and I told him quietly that the two accidents which had happened to him had nothing extraordinary in them, and that not even a superstitious person would call them omens, that I did not consider them in that light, and that they were far from Damping my spirits.
"The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons"
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt