Citations:settle


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * At this his relations were sore amazed; not for that they believed that what he had said to them was true, but because they thought that some frenzy distemper had got into his head; therefore, it drawing towards night, and they hoping that sleep might settle his brains, with all haste they got him to bed.
 * And he said unto me, This miry slough is such a place as cannot be mended; it is the descent whither the scum and filth that attends conviction for sin doth continually run, and therefore it is called the Slough of Despond; for still, as the sinner is awakened about his lost condition, there ariseth in his soul many fears, and doubts, and discouraging apprehensions, which all of them get together, and settle in this place.
 * Now, by this time he was come to the arbour again, where for a while he sat down and wept; but at last, as Christian would have it, looking sorrowfully down under the settle, there he espied his roll; the which he, with trembling and haste, catched up, and put it into his bosom.

To adjust accounts

 * 1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 4, Abbot Hugo
 * ... and the Jew now gets a bond for Eight hundred and eighty pounds, to be paid by installments, Four-score pounds every year. Here was a way of doing business! Neither yet is this insatiable Jew satisfied or settled with:  he had papers against us of 'small debts fourteen years old;'  his modest claim amounts finally to 'Twelve hundred pounds besides interest'