All 3 Uses of
cease
in
Washington Square
- To her mind there was nothing of the infinite about Mrs. Penniman; Catherine saw her all at once, as it were, and was not dazzled by the apparition; whereas her father's great faculties seemed, as they stretched away, to lose themselves in a sort of luminous vagueness, which indicated, not that they stopped, but that Catherine's own mind ceased to follow them.†
Chpt 2
- CHAPTER III As a child she had promised to be tall, but when she was sixteen she ceased to grow, and her stature, like most other points in her composition, was not unusual.†
Chpt 3 *
- "Catherine," he said, lowering his voice, "I have never ceased to think of you."†
Chpt 35
Definition:
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(cease) to stop or discontinue