All 50 Uses of
cease
in
War and Peace
- The spindles hummed steadily and ceaselessly on all sides.†
Chpt 1
- After the murder of the duc even the most partial ceased to regard him as a hero.†
Chpt 1 *
- That's my advice: never marry till you can say to yourself that you have done all you are capable of, and until you have ceased to love the woman of your choice and have seen her plainly as she is, or else you will make a cruel and irrevocable mistake.†
Chpt 1
- Boris and Natasha were at the other window and ceased talking when Vera entered.†
Chpt 1
- In the midst of the service the voices of the priests suddenly ceased, they whispered to one another, and the old servant who was holding the count's hand got up and said something to the ladies.†
Chpt 1
- The chanting of the service ceased, and the voice of the priest was heard respectfully congratulating the dying man on having received the sacrament.†
Chpt 1
- The enemy ceased firing, and that stern, threatening, inaccessible, and intangible line which separates two hostile armies was all the more clearly felt.†
Chpt 2
- Just as he was going to open it the sounds ceased, the door opened, and Kutuzov with his eagle nose and puffy face appeared in the doorway.†
Chpt 2
- The staff officer joined in the colonel's appeals, but Bagration did not reply; he only gave an order to cease firing and re-form, so as to give room for the two approaching battalions.†
Chpt 2
- "Oh, Natasha!" said Sonya, looking ecstatically and earnestly at her friend as if she did not consider her worthy to hear what she meant to say and as if she were saying it to someone else, with whom joking was out of the question, "I am in love with your brother once for all and, whatever may happen to him or to me, shall never cease to love him as long as I live."†
Chpt 3
- As soon as Prince Andrew began to demonstrate the defects of the latter and the merits of his own plan, Prince Dolgorukov ceased to listen to him and gazed absent-mindedly not at the map, but at Prince Andrew's face.†
Chpt 3
- When the monotonous sound of Weyrother's voice ceased, Kutuzov opened his eye as a miller wakes up when the soporific drone of the mill wheel is interrupted.†
Chpt 3
- The French, who had ceased firing at this field strewn with dead and wounded where there was no one left to fire at, on seeing an adjutant riding over it trained a gun on him and fired several shots.†
Chpt 3
- Toward evening he ceased moaning and became quite still.†
Chpt 3
- His looks thanked her for offering him his freedom and told her that one way or another he would never cease to love her, for that would be impossible.†
Chpt 4
- The screaming ceased, and a few more seconds went by.†
Chpt 4
- Prince Andrew ran to the door; the scream ceased and he heard the wail of an infant.†
Chpt 4
- No matter what he thought about, he always returned to these same questions which he could not solve and yet could not cease to ask himself.†
Chpt 5
- You'll die and know all, or cease asking."†
Chpt 5
- We shall not cease to express our sincere views on that subject, and can only say to the King of Prussia and others: 'So much the worse for you.†
Chpt 5
- Princess Mary had ceased taking lessons in mathematics from her father, and when the old prince was at home went to his study with the wet nurse and little Prince Nicholas (as his grandfather called him).†
Chpt 5
- What convinces is when one sees a being dear to one, bound up with one's own life, before whom one was to blame and had hoped to make it right" (Prince Andrew's voice trembled and he turned away), "and suddenly that being is seized with pain, suffers, and ceases to exist….†
Chpt 5
- Next day the countess called Boris aside and had a talk with him, after which he ceased coming to the Rostovs'.†
Chpt 6
- At last the Emperor stopped beside his last partner (he had danced with three) and the music ceased.†
Chpt 6
- After Prince Andrew, Boris came up to ask Natasha for a dance, and then the aide-de-camp who had opened the ball, and several other young men, so that, flushed and happy, and passing on her superfluous partners to Sonya, she did not cease dancing all the evening.†
Chpt 6
- At dinner the conversation did not cease for a moment and seemed to consist of the contents of a book of funny anecdotes.†
Chpt 6
- In the midst of a phrase he ceased speaking and suddenly felt tears choking him, a thing he had thought impossible for him.†
Chpt 6
- You may cease to…. all right, I know I am not to say that.†
Chpt 6
- "More, please, more!" cried Natasha at the door as soon as the balalayka ceased.†
Chpt 7
- "No, I don't believe we ever were in animals," said Natasha, still in a whisper though the music had ceased.†
Chpt 7
- He ceased keeping a diary, avoided the company of the Brothers, began going to the Club again, drank a great deal, and came once more in touch with the bachelor sets, leading such a life that the Countess Helene thought it necessary to speak severely to him about it.†
Chpt 8
- She did not cease chattering good-naturedly and gaily, continually praising Natasha's beauty.†
Chpt 8
- You are enchanting…. from the moment I saw you I have never ceased….†
Chpt 8
- "If he is an honorable man he should either declare his intentions or cease seeing you; and if you won't do this, I will.†
Chpt 8
- Only looking up at the sky did Pierre cease to feel how sordid and humiliating were all mundane things compared with the heights to which his soul had just been raised.†
Chpt 8
- The troops, knowing of the Emperor's presence, were on the lookout for him, and when they caught sight of a figure in an overcoat and a cocked hat standing apart from his suite in front of his tent on the hill, they threw up their caps and shouted: "Vive l'Empereur!" and one after another poured in a ceaseless stream out of the vast forest that had concealed them and, separating, flowed on and on by the three bridges to the other side.†
Chpt 9
- Boris, coolly looking at Helene's dazzling bare shoulders which emerged from a dark, gold-embroidered, gauze gown, talked to her of old acquaintances and at the same time, unaware of it himself and unnoticed by others, never for an instant ceased to observe the Emperor who was in the same room.†
Chpt 9
- He kept laughing sarcastically, he demonstrated, and at last contemptuously ceased to demonstrate, like a mathematician who ceases to prove in various ways the accuracy of a problem that has already been proved.†
Chpt 9
- He kept laughing sarcastically, he demonstrated, and at last contemptuously ceased to demonstrate, like a mathematician who ceases to prove in various ways the accuracy of a problem that has already been proved.†
Chpt 9
- Returning from the yard, the doctor told his wife (who had ceased to smile so happily, and looked at him in alarm, awaiting her sentence) that the rain had ceased and they must go to sleep in their covered cart, or everything in it would be stolen.†
Chpt 9
- Returning from the yard, the doctor told his wife (who had ceased to smile so happily, and looked at him in alarm, awaiting her sentence) that the rain had ceased and they must go to sleep in their covered cart, or everything in it would be stolen.†
Chpt 9
- Day was breaking, the rain had ceased, and the clouds were dispersing.†
Chpt 9
- Natasha's grief began to be overlaid by the impressions of daily life, it ceased to press so painfully on her heart, it gradually faded into the past, and she began to recover physically.†
Chpt 9
- We must cease raving if we are sons of our Fatherland!†
Chpt 9
- The Emperor ceased speaking, the crowd began pressing round him, and rapturous exclamations were heard from all sides.†
Chpt 9
- Ferapontov's wife, who till then had not ceased wailing under the shed, became quiet and with the baby in her arms went to the gate, listening to the sounds and looking in silence at the people.†
Chpt 10
- The roar of guns, the whistling of projectiles, and the piteous moaning of the cook, which rose above the other sounds, did not cease for a moment.†
Chpt 10
- Now that the terrible din of the guns had ceased a hush seemed to reign over the town, broken only by the rustle of footsteps, the moaning, the distant cries, and the crackle of fires which seemed widespread everywhere.†
Chpt 10
- His sobs ceased, he pointed to his eyes, and Tikhon, understanding him, wiped away the tears.†
Chpt 10
- The latter in Pierre's presence had ceased to be caustic, and his face expressed perplexity as to what Julie's smile might mean.†
Chpt 10
Definition:
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(cease) to stop or discontinue