All 27 Uses of
cease
in
David Copperfield
- 'And was David good to you, child?' asked Miss Betsey, when she had been silent for a little while, and these motions of her head had gradually ceased.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- I ceased to draw back, and we went straight to the best parlour, where she left me.†
Chpt 1-3
- I had perception enough to know that my mother was the victim always; that she was afraid to speak to me or to be kind to me, lest she should give them some offence by her manner of doing so, and receive a lecture afterwards; that she was not only ceaselessly afraid of her own offending, but of my offending, and uneasily watched their looks if I only moved.†
Chpt 7-9
- At last this document appeared to be got out of the way, somehow; at all events it ceased to be the rock-ahead it had been; and Mrs. Micawber informed me that 'her family' had decided that Mr. Micawber should apply for his release under the Insolvent Debtors Act, which would set him free, she expected, in about six weeks.†
Chpt 10-12
- I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.†
Chpt 13-15
- I had never ceased to write to her, but it must have been seven years since we had met.†
Chpt 19-21
- When he ceased she became brisk again in an instant, and rattled away with surprising volubility.†
Chpt 22-24
- She dropped her face on my old nurse's breast, and, ceasing this supplication, which in its agony and grief was half a woman's, half a child's, as all her manner was (being, in that, more natural, and better suited to her beauty, as I thought, than any other manner could have been), wept silently, while my old nurse hushed her like an infant.†
Chpt 22-24
- I have said that the company were all gone; but I ought to have excepted Uriah, whom I don't include in that denomination, and who had never ceased to hover near us.†
Chpt 25-27
- It may have been a mistaken one, or you may have ceased to justify it.†
Chpt 25-27
- …and her manner slowly change; I saw her look at him with growing admiration; I saw her try, more and more faintly, but always angrily, as if she condemned a weakness in herself, to resist the captivating power that he possessed; and finally, I saw her sharp glance soften, and her smile become quite gentle, and I ceased to be afraid of her as I had really been all day, and we all sat about the fire, talking and laughing together, with as little reserve as if we had been children.†
Chpt 28-30
- He stood, long after I had ceased to read, still looking at me.†
Chpt 31-33
- I told him I was well convinced of it; and I hinted that I hoped the time might even come, when he would cease to lead the lonely life he naturally contemplated now.†
Chpt 31-33
- Insert the wedge into the Prerogative Office, and the country would cease to be glorious.†
Chpt 31-33
- This reminds me, not only that I expected Traddles on a certain afternoon of his own appointing, which was now come, but that Mrs. Crupp had resigned everything appertaining to her office (the salary excepted) until Peggotty should cease to present herself.†
Chpt 34-36
- If I thought Dora could ever love anybody else, or cease to love me; or that I could ever love anybody else, or cease to love her; I don't know what I should do — go out of my mind, I think!'†
Chpt 34-36
- If I thought Dora could ever love anybody else, or cease to love me; or that I could ever love anybody else, or cease to love her; I don't know what I should do — go out of my mind, I think!'†
Chpt 34-36
- In the ensuing interval, I told Miss Mills that she was evermore my friend, and that my heart must cease to vibrate ere I could forget her sympathy.†
Chpt 37-39
- Here she ceased; and snapping her reticule again, and shutting her mouth, looked as if she might be broken, but could never be bent.†
Chpt 37-39
- Its position is just at that point where the street ceases, and the road begins to lie between a row of houses and the river.†
Chpt 46-48
- The leaves were thick upon the trees, and heavy with wet; but the rain had ceased, though the sky was still dark; and the hopeful birds were singing cheerfully.†
Chpt 49-51
- He ceased to speak, and his hand upon the table rested there in perfect repose, with a resolution in it that might have conquered lions.†
Chpt 49-51
- …to say as might bring her to believe I wasn't greatly hurt: still loving of her, and mourning for her: anything as might bring her to believe as I was not tired of my life, and yet was hoping fur to see her without blame, wheer the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest — anything as would ease her sorrowful mind, and yet not make her think as I could ever marry, or as 'twas possible that anyone could ever be to me what she was — I should ask of you to say that — with…†
Chpt 49-51
- My object, when the contest within myself between stipend and no stipend, baker and no baker, existence and non-existence, ceased, was to take advantage of my opportunities to discover and expose the major malpractices committed, to that gentleman's grievous wrong and injury, by — HEEP.†
Chpt 52-54
- I have ceased to carry my light burden up and down stairs now.†
Chpt 52-54
- 'Or at my saying that I really believe I felt, even then, that you could be faithfully affectionate against all discouragement, and never cease to be so, until you ceased to live?†
Chpt 58-60
- 'Or at my saying that I really believe I felt, even then, that you could be faithfully affectionate against all discouragement, and never cease to be so, until you ceased to live?†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(cease) to stop or discontinue