All 13 Uses of
cease
in
The Fellowship of the Ring
- They were, in fact, sheltered, but they had ceased to remember it.†
Chpt Pro. *
- The Thain was the master of the Shire-moot, and captain of the Shire-muster and the Hobbitry-in-arms, but as muster and moot were only held in times of emergency, which no longer occurred, the Thainship had ceased to be more than a nominal dignity.†
Chpt Pro.
- Then suddenly his visits had ceased.†
Chpt 1.2
- He was interested in roots and beginnings; he dived into deep pools; he burrowed under trees and growing plants; he tunnelled into green mounds; and he ceased to look up at the hill-tops, or the leaves on trees, or the flowers opening in the air: his head and his eyes were downward.†
Chpt 1.2
- After some miles, however, the road ceased to roll up and down: it climbed to the top of a steep bank in a weary zig-zagging sort of way, and then prepared to go down for the last time.†
Chpt 1.3
- After an hour or two they had lost all clear sense of direction, though they knew well enough that they had long ceased to go northward at all.†
Chpt 1.6
- The chanting ceased.†
Chpt 2.1
- For it is a long tale, full of deeds great and terrible, and briefly though Elrond spoke, the sun rode up the sky, and the morning was passing ere he ceased.†
Chpt 2.2
- He ceased, but at once Boromir stood up, tall and proud, before them.†
Chpt 2.2
- Strider" I am to one fat man who lives within a day's march of foes that would freeze his heart or lay his little town in ruin, if he were not guarded ceaselessly.†
Chpt 2.2
- The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present.†
Chpt 2.3
- While they were halted, the wind died down, and the snow slackened until it almost ceased.†
Chpt 2.3
- The voice of Legolas faltered, and the song ceased.†
Chpt 2.6
Definition:
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(cease) to stop or discontinue