All 3 Uses of
cessation
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- The stillness consequent on the cessation of the rumbling and labouring of the coach, added to the stillness of the night, made it very quiet indeed.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- And when Jarvis Lorry saw the kindled eyes, the resolute face, the calm strong look and bearing of the man whose life always seemed to him to have been stopped, like a clock, for so many years, and then set going again with an energy which had lain dormant during the cessation of its usefulness, he believed.†
Chpt 3.4
- There was no cessation, but the regular moment's pause, in the utterance of these sounds.†
Chpt 3.10
Definition:
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(cessation) a stopping