All 13 Uses of
cease
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- But now every sound ceased suddenly, with the subsidence of Mr. Walters' voice, and the conclusion of the speech was received with a burst of silent gratitude.†
Chpt 4
- The groans ceased and the pain vanished from the toe.†
Chpt 6
- The buzz of study ceased.†
Chpt 6
- By and by attention ceased from him, and the accustomed school murmur rose upon the dull air once more.†
Chpt 6
- At last he was satisfied that time had ceased and eternity begun; he began to doze, in spite of himself; the clock chimed eleven, but he did not hear it.†
Chpt 9
- However, even inquests went out of vogue at last, and ceased to torture Tom's conscience.†
Chpt 11
- At last frocks ceased to appear, and he dropped hopelessly into the dumps; he entered the empty schoolhouse and sat down to suffer.†
Chpt 12
- But when the shadows of night closed them in, they gradually ceased to talk, and sat gazing into the fire, with their minds evidently wandering elsewhere.†
Chpt 14
- Under the ceaseless conflagration of lightning that flamed in the skies, everything below stood out in clean-cut and shadowless distinctness: the bending trees, the billowy river, white with foam, the driving spray of spume-flakes, the dim outlines of the high bluffs on the other side, glimpsed through the drifting cloud-rack and the slanting veil of rain.†
Chpt 16
- in a little while every sound ceased but his own voice;
Chpt 23 *ceased = stopped or discontinued
- Now one snore ceased.†
Chpt 26
- Ten o'clock came, and the noise of vehicles ceased, scattered lights began to wink out, all straggling foot-passengers disappeared, the village betook itself to its slumbers and left the small watcher alone with the silence and the ghosts.†
Chpt 29
- This shortly brought them to a bewitching spring, whose basin was incrusted with a frostwork of glittering crystals; it was in the midst of a cavern whose walls were supported by many fantastic pillars which had been formed by the joining of great stalactites and stalagmites together, the result of the ceaseless water-drip of centuries.†
Chpt 31
Definition:
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(cease) to stop or discontinue