All 10 Uses of
cease
in
Main Street
- A girl-child ceaselessly trots down to the water-cooler and back to her seat.†
Chpt 3
- They tittered politely, but they did not move from the social security of their circle, and they did not cease staring.†
Chpt 4
- As she never entered it, the Minniemashie House ceased to exist for her.†
Chpt 5 *
- While she waited she ceased to pity and began to mock herself.†
Chpt 15
- His giggling ceased.†
Chpt 15
- Then, for three years which passed like one curt paragraph, she ceased to find anything interesting save the Bjornstams and her baby.†
Chpt 18
- His confident voice dwindled to a bewildered murmur, ceaseless and racking.†
Chpt 26
- When he demanded, "I'd like to stage 'Suppressed Desires,' by Cook and Miss Glaspell," Carol ceased to be patronizing.†
Chpt 28
- Vida had done her a service; had made all agonizing seem so fatuous that she ceased writhing and saw that her whole problem was simple as mutton: she was interested in Erik's aspiration; interest gave her a hesitating fondness for him; and the future would take care of the event….†
Chpt 31
- A booming semi-city with parks and clever architects, visited by famous pianists and unctuous lecturers, but irritable from a struggle between union labor and the manufacturers' association, so that in even the gayest of the new houses there was a ceaseless and intimidating heresy-hunt.†
Chpt 37
Definition:
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(cease) to stop or discontinue