All 4 Uses of
cease
in
A Christmas Carol
- The bells ceased as they had begun, together.†
Chpt 1 *
- The third upon the next night when the last stroke of Twelve has ceased to vibrate.†
Chpt 1
- In time the bells ceased, and the bakers were shut up; and yet there was a genial shadowing forth of all these dinners and the progress of their cooking, in the thawed blotch of wet above each baker's oven; where the pavement smoked as if its stones were cooking too.†
Chpt 3
- As the last stroke ceased to vibrate, he remembered the prediction of old Jacob Marley, and lifting up his eyes, beheld a solemn Phantom, draped and hooded, coming, like a mist along the ground, towards him.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(cease) to stop or discontinue