All 13 Uses of
cease
in
Bleak House
- The shower greatly abated, the lightning ceased, the thunder rolled among the distant hills, and the sun began to glisten on the wet leaves and the falling rain.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- On the present evening of the long vacation, in Cook's Court, Cursitor Street, he does such a powerful stroke of business that the warehouse appears to be quite full when the works cease.†
Chpt 19-21
- I told you what would come of it when I ceased to be so, and see here!†
Chpt 22-24
- She has ceased to toss the screen and holds it as if she were listening.†
Chpt 28-30
- I do not mean that it ceased even then, but that my attention was then diverted into a current very memorable to me.†
Chpt 31-33
- The bell that rings at nine o'clock has ceased its doleful clangour about nothing; the gates are shut; and the night-porter, a solemn warder with a mighty power of sleep, keeps guard in his lodge.†
Chpt 31-33
- When these at length cease, all seems more mysterious and quiet than before.†
Chpt 31-33
- Mrs. Bagnet ceasing, Mr. Bagnet removes his hand from his head as if the shower-bath were over and looks disconsolately at Mr. George, who has turned quite white and looks distressfully at the grey cloak and straw bonnet.†
Chpt 34-36
- Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.†
Chpt 37-39
- When it has ceased, the fine night, the bright large moon, and multitudes of stars, are left at peace again.†
Chpt 46-48
- Here he would crease up his eyelids and kiss his fingers to me, though I am happy to say he had ceased to be particular in his attentions since I had been so altered.†
Chpt 49-51
- …this, Mrs. Snagsby, as an injured woman, and the friend of Mrs. Chadband, and the follower of Mr. Chadband, and the mourner of the late Mr. Tulkinghorn, is here to certify under the seal of confidence, with every possible confusion and involvement possible and impossible, having no pecuniary motive whatever, no scheme or project but the one mentioned, and bringing here, and taking everywhere, her own dense atmosphere of dust, arising from the ceaseless working of her mill of jealousy.†
Chpt 52-54
- "My mother will likewise live in the 'ouse when her present quarter in the Old Street Road shall have ceased and expired; and consequently there will be no want of society.†
Chpt 64-65
Definition:
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(cease) to stop or discontinue