Both Uses of
cease
in
The Man Without a Country
- The dancing went on with spirit, and after a while even the fellows who took this honorary guard of Nolan ceased to fear any contretemps.†
Chpt Rest
- The reason he had never heard of Texas was that Texas and her affairs had been painfully cut out of his newspapers since Austin began his settlements; so that ... this virgin province, in which his brother had travelled so far, and, I believe, had died, had ceased to be to him.
Chpt Rest *ceased = stopped or discontinued
Definition:
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(cease) to stop or discontinue