All 18 Uses of
cease
in
Emma
- Even before Miss Taylor had ceased to hold the nominal office of governess, the mildness of her temper had hardly allowed her to impose any restraint; and the shadow of authority being now long passed away, they had been living together as friend and friend very mutually attached, and Emma doing just what she liked; highly esteeming Miss Taylor's judgment, but directed chiefly by her own.†
Chpt 1.1-2
- They lived beyond their income, but still it was nothing in comparison of Enscombe: she did not cease to love her husband, but she wanted at once to be the wife of Captain Weston, and Miss Churchill of Enscombe.†
Chpt 1.1-2
- There was no recovering Miss Taylor—nor much likelihood of ceasing to pity her; but a few weeks brought some alleviation to Mr. Woodhouse.†
Chpt 1.1-2 *
- The couplet does not cease to be, nor does its meaning change.†
Chpt 1.9-10
- But take it away, and all appropriation ceases, and a very pretty gallant charade remains, fit for any collection.†
Chpt 1.9-10
- Her regard was receiving strength by invariable praise of him, and her regrets kept alive, and feelings irritated by ceaseless repetitions of Miss Hawkins's happiness, and continual observation of, how much he seemed attached!†
Chpt 2.3-4
- Its character as a ball-room caught him; and instead of passing on, he stopt for several minutes at the two superior sashed windows which were open, to look in and contemplate its capabilities, and lament that its original purpose should have ceased.†
Chpt 2.5-6
- Not till the reserve ceases towards oneself; and then the attraction may be the greater.†
Chpt 2.5-6
- He was quite as undaunted and as lively as ever; and, after seeing him, Emma thus moralised to herself:— "I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.†
Chpt 2.7-8
- Here ceased the concert part of the evening, for Miss Woodhouse and Miss Fairfax were the only young lady performers; but soon (within five minutes) the proposal of dancing—originating nobody exactly knew where—was so effectually promoted by Mr. and Mrs. Cole, that every thing was rapidly clearing away, to give proper space.†
Chpt 2.7-8
- But stranger things have happened; and when we cease to care for each other as we do now, it will be the means of confirming us in that sort of true disinterested friendship which I can already look forward to with pleasure.†
Chpt 2.13-14
- Every body seemed happy; and the praise of being a delightful ball, which is seldom bestowed till after a ball has ceased to be, was repeatedly given in the very beginning of the existence of this.†
Chpt 3.1-2
- —Robert Martin had probably ceased to think of Harriet.†
Chpt 3.5-6
- "That you may have less difficulty in believing this boast, of my present perfect indifference," she continued, "I will farther tell you, that there was a period in the early part of our acquaintance, when I did like him, when I was very much disposed to be attached to him—nay, was attached—and how it came to cease, is perhaps the wonder.†
Chpt 3.9-10
- Fortunately, however, it did cease.†
Chpt 3.9-10
- The weather affected Mr. Woodhouse, and he could only be kept tolerably comfortable by almost ceaseless attention on his daughter's side, and by exertions which had never cost her half so much before.†
Chpt 3.11-12
- —Frank Churchill would return among them no more; and Miss Fairfax, it was reasonable to suppose, would soon cease to belong to Highbury.†
Chpt 3.11-12
- As soon as she came to her own name, it was irresistible; every line relating to herself was interesting, and almost every line agreeable; and when this charm ceased, the subject could still maintain itself, by the natural return of her former regard for the writer, and the very strong attraction which any picture of love must have for her at that moment.†
Chpt 3.15-16
Definition:
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(cease) to stop or discontinue