All 14 Uses of
cease
in
The House of Mirth
- To his wife he no longer counted: he had become extinct when he ceased to fulfil his purpose, and she sat at his side with the provisional air of a traveller who waits for a belated train to start.†
Chpt 1.3
- He had so completely ceased to consider how far this might carry him, that he had a distinct sense of disappointment when she turned on him a face sparkling with derision.†
Chpt 1.6 *
- When she ceased to amuse Judy Trenor and her friends she would have to fall back on amusing Mrs. Peniston; whichever way she looked she saw only a future of servitude to the whims of others, never the possibility of asserting her own eager individuality.†
Chpt 1.9
- She had shown her artistic intelligence in selecting a type so like her own that she could embody the person represented without ceasing to be herself.†
Chpt 1.12
- To his impatience it seemed immeasurably long to wait, and half-ashamed of the impulse, he leaned to Mrs. Fisher to ask, as the music ceased, if Miss Bart had not dined with her.†
Chpt 1.14
- Lily's sobs ceased, and she lifted her head.†
Chpt 1.14
- It would be difficult to follow her there, and still more difficult, should he do so, to contrive the opportunity for a private word; and he had almost decided on the unsatisfactory alternative of writing, when the ceaseless diorama of the square suddenly unrolled before him the figures of Lord Hubert and Mrs. Bry.†
Chpt 2.3
- What, then, if the passion persisted, though the other motive had ceased to sustain it?†
Chpt 2.5
- His face, with its tossed red hair and straggling moustache, had a driven uneasy look, as though life had become an unceasing race between himself and the thoughts at his heels.†
Chpt 2.6
- In his presence a sudden stillness came upon her, and the turmoil of her spirit ceased; but an impulse of resistance to this stealing influence now prompted her to say: "It's very good of you to present yourself in that capacity; but what makes you think I have anything particular to talk about?"†
Chpt 2.9
- "I don't know," she said, when he had ceased to speak, "why you imagine me to be situated as you describe; but as you have always told me that the sole object of a bringing-up like mine was to teach a girl to get what she wants, why not assume that that is precisely what I am doing?"†
Chpt 2.9
- Chapter 13 The street-lamps were lit, but the rain had ceased, and there was a momentary revival of light in the upper sky.†
Chpt 2.13
- In the street the noise of wheels had ceased, and the rumble of the "elevated" came only at long intervals through the deep unnatural hush.†
Chpt 2.13
- But he remembered Gerty's warning words—he knew that, though time had ceased in this room, its feet were hastening relentlessly toward the door.†
Chpt 2.14
Definition:
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(cease) to stop or discontinue