All 14 Uses of
cease
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- But, though the bank was almost always with him, and though the coach (in a confused way, like the presence of pain under an opiate) was always with him, there was another current of impression that never ceased to run, all through the night.†
Chpt 1.3
- Without directly answering to this appeal, she sat so still when he had very gently raised her, and the hands that had not ceased to clasp his wrists were so much more steady than they had been, that she communicated some reassurance to Mr. Jarvis Lorry.†
Chpt 1.4
- When the wine was gone, and the places where it had been most abundant were raked into a gridiron-pattern by fingers, these demonstrations ceased, as suddenly as they had broken out.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- When the Attorney-General ceased, a buzz arose in the court as if a cloud of great blue-flies were swarming about the prisoner, in anticipation of what he was soon to become.†
Chpt 2.3
- His cry was so like a cry of actual pain, that it rang in Charles Darnay's ears long after he had ceased.†
Chpt 2.10
- So strange was the way in which he faded into silence, and so strange his fixed look when he had ceased to speak, that Darnay felt his own hand turn cold in the hand that slowly released and dropped it.†
Chpt 2.10
- The noise ceased at the sound of her voice, and he presently came out to her, and they walked up and down together for a long time.†
Chpt 2.10
- The moment Madame Defarge took up the rose, the customers ceased talking, and began gradually to drop out of the wine-shop.†
Chpt 2.16
- When do you cease to work?†
Chpt 2.23
- It is in vain I represent that, before the sequestration of emigrant property, I had remitted the imposts they had ceased to pay; that I had collected no rent; that I had had recourse to no process.†
Chpt 2.24
- But, though the Doctor tried hard, and never ceased trying, to get Charles Darnay set at liberty, or at least to get him brought to trial, the public current of the time set too strong and fast for him.†
Chpt 3.4
- The quick noise and movement of the court's emptying itself by many passages had not ceased, when Lucie stood stretching out her arms towards her husband, with nothing in her face but love and consolation.†
Chpt 3.11
- Soon, Madame Defarge's hands ceased to strike, and felt at her encircled waist.†
Chpt 3.14
- If he had given any utterance to his, and they were prophetic, they would have been these: "I see Barsad, and Cly, Defarge, The Vengeance, the Juryman, the Judge, long ranks of the new oppressors who have risen on the destruction of the old, perishing by this retributive instrument, before it shall cease out of its present use.†
Chpt 3.15
Definition:
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(cease) to stop or discontinue