I had left a rampant thing upon every brain, and very naturally the impulse followed to squelch the perpetrator for all time.
"She Buildeth Her House"
Will Comfort
The squelch-squelch of soaking boots and the creaking of leather equipment was all he heard.
"War and the Weird"
Forbes Phillips R. Thurston Hopkins
But although we believe that progress has been started always and everywhere by the efforts of reformers that have occurred as spontaneous variations from the dead level of their fellows independent of time and circumstances, we need not deny the effect of environment, especially the effect of an inimical environment, upon a new movement after it has been started, and it may well be that the physical disadvantages of the great "dark" continent may have made difficult, if not impossible, in the past that meeting and friction of different cultures which seem to be essential to the birth of intellectual life, so that here the admitted isolation of the inhabitants during many centuries may have served to squelch initiative and foster stagnation.
"The Black Man's Place in South Africa"
Peter Nielsen