All 8 Uses of
cease
in
Treasure Island
- My father was always saying the inn would be ruined, for people would soon cease coming there to be tyrannized over and put down, and sent shivering to their beds; but I really believe his presence did us good.†
Chpt 1cease = stop or discontinue
- But by this time we had all long ceased to pay any particular notice to the song; it was new, that night, to nobody but Dr. Livesey, and on him I observed it did not produce an agreeable effect, for he looked up for a moment quite angrily before he went on with his talk to old Taylor, the gardener, on a new cure for the rheumatics.†
Chpt 1ceased = stopped or discontinued
- At last the tapping recommenced, and, to our indescribable joy and gratitude, died slowly away again until it ceased to be heard.†
Chpt 4
- The captain, who had so long been a cause of so much discomfort, was gone where the wicked cease from troubling.
Chpt 7 *cease = stop or discontinue
- Although the breeze had now utterly ceased, we had made a great deal of way during the night and were now lying becalmed about half a mile to the south-east of the low eastern coast.†
Chpt 13ceased = stopped or discontinued
- At last the speakers seemed to have paused and perhaps to have sat down, for not only did they cease to draw any nearer, but the birds themselves began to grow more quiet and to settle again to their places in the swamp.†
Chpt 14cease = stop or discontinue
- The squire raised his gun, the rowing ceased, and we leaned over to the other side to keep the balance, and all was so nicely contrived that we did not ship a drop.†
Chpt 17ceased = stopped or discontinued
- So I must have lain for hours, continually beaten to and fro upon the billows, now and again wetted with flying sprays, and never ceasing to expect death at the next plunge.†
Chpt 23ceasing = stopping or discontinuing
Definitions:
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(1)
(cease) to stop or discontinue
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Note that the expression, cease fire means to stop doing battle such as firing funs at each other. Similarly, the noun, cease-fire, is a state of having stopped doing battle.