All 6 Uses of
cease
in
The Return of the King
- Three strokes it rang, like silver in the air, and ceased: the third hour from the rising of the sun.†
Chpt 5.1 *
- They have long ceased to fear the might of Gondor, and they have allied them with the Enemy, and now make a heavy stroke in his cause.†
Chpt 5.1
- The throb would cease suddenly and then be taken up again at some other point, now nearer, now further off.†
Chpt 5.5
- The flying rain had ceased for a time, and the sun gleamed up above; but all the lower city was still wrapped in a smouldering reek.†
Chpt 5.8
- Now, for a moment, his own fate, and even his masters, ceased to trouble him.†
Chpt 6.2
- Then, as a sweet rain will pass down a wind of spring and the sun will shine out the clearer, his tears ceased, and his laughter welled up, and laughing he sprang from his bed.†
Chpt 6.4
Definition:
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(cease) to stop or discontinue