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  • She's offering a small portion of Wonderland, probably in Outerwilderbeastia but still to be decided, in exchange for a cessation of all rebel activity," said a plump fellow wedged into a chair and wearing the long mantle common among young men of suit families.†   (source)
  • When I opened my eyes, more of the Bikura had arrived...There was a cessation of movement, as if a quorum had been filled, a decision reached.†   (source)
  • Chicago's Commercial and Financial Chronicle reported, "Never before has there been such a sudden and striking cessation of industrial activity."†   (source)
  • Plegia is the cessation of motion.†   (source)
  • As with all smoking cessation aids, it has the least success with the heaviest smokers.†   (source)
  • Just a cessation of pain?†   (source)
  • In every spot where the magic took effect, Roran felt his skin itch and crawl, followed by a blessed cessation of pain.†   (source)
  • He hopes his flight, like that of the character in the title, toward asylum (Canada, or freedom, or the company of the welcoming dead), or home, is interpreted as a radical gesture demanding change, an alternative way, a cessation of things as they are.†   (source)
  • Abolitionists believed in immediate cessation of slavery and complete emancipation of all slaves.†   (source)
  • While in Cairo I held a press conference at which I said the ANC was "prepared to consider a cessation of hostilities."†   (source)
  • Drizzt could have killed dozens of orcs and goblins, even a verbeeg, though the cessation of its thundering snores might have drawn attention, but he couldn't afford to slow his pace.†   (source)
  • Clary's arms around him, her hair falling down around them both, the cessation of pain that had come with darkness.†   (source)
  • He climbed swiftly, silently, stopping as before with every screech of a bird, every flutter of wings, each abrupt cessation of the cricket symphony.†   (source)
  • Cessation from all hankerings.†   (source)
  • I was only able to find the comic on an archive server and there were no notices to explain your cessation.†   (source)
  • The Germans had been cursed without cessation and for so long that the dirtiest anathema, no matter how novel, sounded vapid; better to let the tongue fall dumb.†   (source)
  • The winter ordained a cessation of motors, shrimp nets, and fishing lines.†   (source)
  • The war has come to a point of cessation.   (source)
    cessation = ending
  • And then the music ceased, as I have told; and the evolutions of the waltzers were quieted; and there was an uneasy cessation of all things as before.   (source)
    cessation = stopping
  • Smoking Cessation, and Major Depression," Journal of the American Medical Association{1990), vol. 264, pp. 1*46-1*49.†   (source)
  • , "Heavy smokers, smoking cessation, and clonidinc: results of a double-blind, randomized trial," Journal of the American Medical Association (1988), vol. 2*9, pp.2863-1866.†   (source)
  • This pronouncement caused Isham to immediately back down on his offer, saying he would only tender it if the judge could guarantee a cessation to the trial.†   (source)
  • To that end, Your Honor, I move for another cessation of this trial until said documents are provided to me and my fellow attorneys, and we are given enough time to examine them with an eye toward our clients' defense.†   (source)
  • Death meant the cessation of all activity on the island and, though school was in session, no children appeared at the door on the day of the funeral.†   (source)
  • There was, as usual, a cessation of the small-talk in the Lodge as she passed through it; and a Collegian who had come in on Saturday night, received the intimation from the elbow of a more seasoned Collegian, 'Look out.†   (source)
  • There was no cessation of mirth in that, either.†   (source)
  • The Archbishop of Lima, whom we shall know later in a more graceful connection, hated her with what he called a Vatinian hate and counted the cessation of her visits among the compensations for dying.†   (source)
  • For a while yet she looks at him, without reproach, without anything at all, as if her eyes alone are listening to the irrevocable cessation of his voice.†   (source)
  • And if there can be either access of comfort or cessation of pain in the ultimate escape from a stubborn and amazed outrage which over a period of forty-three years has been companionship and bread and fire and all, I do not know that either.†   (source)
  • Boredom therefore can arise from the cessation of habitual functions, even though these may be boring too.†   (source)
  • Nay, brother Ananda, The Blessed One has not yet passed into Nirvana; he has arrived at the cessation of perception and sensation.†   (source)
  • It is like a casting of fading bronze upon the pillow, the hands alone still with any semblance of life: a curled, gnarled ineptness; a spent yet alert quality from which weariness, exhaustion, travail has not yet departed, as though they doubted even yet the actuality of rest, guarding with horned and penurious alertness the cessation which they know cannot last.†   (source)
  • Thereupon The Blessed One rising from the cessation of his perception and sensation, entered the realm of neither perception nor yet non-perception; and rising from the realm of neither perception nor yet non-perception, he entered the realm of nothingness; and rising from the realm of nothingness, he entered the realm of infinity of consciousness; and rising from the realm of infinity DEPARTURE O†   (source)
  • with his bandaged head and arm, his sullen impassive (and now bloodless) olive face, who refused to answer any questions, make any statement so that the justice ( Jim Hamblett it was) was already making his speech of indictment when your grandfather entered, utilising opportunity and audience to orate, his eyes already glazed with that cessation of vision of people who like to hear themselves talk in public: 'At this time, while our country is struggling to rise from beneath the iron heel of a tyrant oppressor, when the very future of the South as a place bearable for our women and children to live in depends on the labor of our own hands, when the tools which we have to use, to depen†   (source)
  • the realm of the infinity of consciousness; and rising from the realm of the infinity of consciousness, he entered the realm of nothingness; and rising from the realm of nothingness, he entered the realm of neither perception nor yet non-perception; and rising from the realm of neither perception nor yet non-perception, he arrived at the cessation of perception and sensation.†   (source)
  • Everything remained the same and there was no cessation.†   (source)
  • The news filled her with the glow produced by a sudden cessation of physical pain.†   (source)
  • As it was, spray and spume came aboard in such quantities that I bailed without cessation.†   (source)
  • He has now so far quieted that there are spells of cessation from his passion.†   (source)
  • This was the startling effect of the cessation of motion.†   (source)
  • The tumult of cessation from lessons was already breaking forth, but it sank at her voice.†   (source)
  • Cessation in his love-making had revivified her love.†   (source)
  • At no hour of the day was there cessation of the lash on her premises.†   (source)
  • There was no cessation, but the regular moment's pause, in the utterance of these sounds.†   (source)
  • At the first short cessation in the rain, Oliver conducted Elizabeth to the road, where he left her.†   (source)
  • There was an unforeseen surprise, a cessation of the winds and odours of life, a social pressure that would have her think conjugally.†   (source)
  • Six years more of toil they had to face before they could expect the least respite, the cessation of the payments upon the house; and how cruelly certain it was that they could never stand six years of such a life as they were living!†   (source)
  • The hunters were returning from the chase; a gradual cessation in gun-fire marked Tom's approach to Hudnall's outfit.†   (source)
  • It was not the loss for the moment that made slack milking so serious, but that with the decline of demand there came decline, and ultimately cessation, of supply.†   (source)
  • The killing of a man named Sellers, and the combination of circumstances that had made the tragedy a memorable regret, had marked, if not a change, at least a cessation in Duane's activities.†   (source)
  • During the weeks of his enforced stay in the canon there had been a cessation of operations—the nature of which Joan merely guessed—and a gradual accumulation of idle wailing men in the main camp.†   (source)
  • An eternity of endless agony, of endless bodily and spiritual torment, without one ray of hope, without one moment of cessation, of agony limitless in intensity, of torment infinitely varied, of torture that sustains eternally that which it eternally devours, of anguish that everlastingly preys upon the spirit while it racks the flesh, an eternity, every instant of which is itself an eternity of woe.†   (source)
  • But often a pause so gained lengthened out until it evolved into a complete cessation from the attack.†   (source)
  • But once in his cell, suffering none the less without cessation the long night through, from thoughts—thoughts con, cerning all that had just gone.†   (source)
  • In the night, or the gloomy chambers of the day, fears and misgivings wax strong, but out in the sunlight there is, for a time, cessation even of the terror of death.†   (source)
  • Then, though he may not consciously have taken this into consideration, the certainty that she was waiting for him, that she was not anywhere or with anyone else, that he would see her before he went home, drew the sting from that anguish, forgotten, it is true, but latent and ever ready to be reawakened, which he had felt on the evening when Odette had left the Verdurins' before his arrival, an anguish the actual cessation of which was so agreeable that it might even be called a state of happiness.†   (source)
  • At Worcester, though he had the name of keeping to himself and not being much of a hand at a good time, he had secretly gloried in being clapped on the back and hailed as "Old Ethe" or "Old Stiff"; and the cessation of such familiarities had increased the chill of his return to Starkfield.†   (source)
  • Indeed, so utterly miserable was she that the exquisite relief of sitting down, of a cessation of movement, of a release from that infernal perpetual-trotting horse, seemed only a mockery.†   (source)
  • Here he paused, but only for a moment, then went on: "But at no point have I been able to find the least modification or cessation of any of these social activities on his part which so entranced him.†   (source)
  • It freezes the water to prevent it running to the sea; it drives the sap out of the trees till they are frozen to their mighty hearts; and most ferociously and terribly of all does the Wild harry and crush into submission man—man who is the most restless of life, ever in revolt against the dictum that all movement must in the end come to the cessation of movement.†   (source)
  • She knew in advance what form they would take—the gradual cessation of the inner throb, the soft approach of passiveness, as though an invisible hand made magic passes over her in the darkness.†   (source)
  • Frequently there is a period between the cessation of youthful accretion and the setting in, in the case of the middle-aged man, of the tendency toward decay when the two processes are almost perfectly balanced and there is little doing in either direction.†   (source)
  • She, a monogamist, regretted the cessation of some of life's innocent odours; he, whose instincts were polygamous, felt morally braced by the change and less liable to the temptations that had assailed him in the past.†   (source)
  • It was the first night I had spent under cover in several months, and I lay luxuriously for some minutes under my blankets (for once not wet with fog or spray), analysing, first, the effect produced upon me by the cessation of the wind, and next, the joy which was mine from resting on the mattress made by Maud's hands.†   (source)
  • And when they had concluded—and much to the surprise of the audience, which was expecting more and more attacks and exposures, almost without cessation—Mason turned and explained: "That's all."†   (source)
  • To him it was like the cessation of an ache that Mary could laugh at him, and with a passive sort of smile he tried to reach her hand; but she slipped away quickly towards the door and said, "I shall tell uncle.†   (source)
  • A short cessation in the firing now took place on the part of the Indians, who gathered about the canoe, and, having found the paddles, were preparing to cross the river.†   (source)
  • With the cessation of the call, the gallery was cleared of the soldiery; many of whom, as they dared not appear in the ranks with visible plunder in their hands, flung what they had upon the floor, until it was strewn with articles of richest virtu.†   (source)
  • It was that reverie which we give to things that will not return, the lassitude that seizes you after everything was done; that pain, in fine, that the interruption of every wonted movement, the sudden cessation of any prolonged vibration, brings on.†   (source)
  • The stillness consequent on the cessation of the rumbling and labouring of the coach, added to the stillness of the night, made it very quiet indeed.†   (source)
  • And yet more incomprehensible is the cessation of that movement when a rational and sacred aim for the Crusade—the deliverance of Jerusalem—had been clearly defined by historic leaders.†   (source)
  • He was interrupted by a long and hearty, but still a noiseless fit of merriment, from the trapper, which was considered so ill-timed by the offended naturalist, as to produce an instant cessation of speech, if not a stagnation of ideas.†   (source)
  • Emmy had passed blushing through the room anon, where all sorts of people were collected; Tyrolese glove-sellers and Danubian linen-merchants, with their packs; students recruiting themselves with butterbrods and meat; idlers, playing cards or dominoes on the sloppy, beery tables; tumblers refreshing during the cessation of their performances—in a word, all the fumum and strepitus of a German inn in fair time.†   (source)
  • This remark caused a cessation of the compliments, and induced the physician to turn an inquiring eye in the direction of his patient.†   (source)
  • Lydia's intention of walking to Meryton was not forgotten; every sister except Mary agreed to go with her; and Mr. Collins was to attend them, at the request of Mr. Bennet, who was most anxious to get rid of him, and have his library to himself; for thither Mr. Collins had followed him after breakfast; and there he would continue, nominally engaged with one of the largest folios in the collection, but really talking to Mr. Bennet, with little cessation, of his house and garden at Hunsford.†   (source)
  • The spirits of all were depressed, and even occasional rapid rides, during a partial cessation of the rain, failed permanently to arouse them.†   (source)
  • [Footnote q: [The Civil War of 1860-65 cruelly belied this statement, and in the course of the struggle the North alone called two millions and a half of men to arms; but to the honor of the United States it must be added that, with the cessation of the contest, this army disappeared as rapidly as it had been raised†   (source)
  • Mr. Sowerberry was much tickled at this: as of course he ought to be; and laughed a long time without cessation.†   (source)
  • But either because inquiry was too slow-footed to overtake him, or because the description applied to so many pedlars that inquiry did not know how to choose among them, weeks passed away, and there was no other result concerning the robbery than a gradual cessation of the excitement it had caused in Raveloe.†   (source)
  • He was a tearful boy, and broke into such deplorable lamentations, when a cessation of our connexion was hinted at, that we were obliged to keep him.†   (source)
  • But a deluge of rain was still falling, though with that violence which generally denotes the near cessation of a storm.†   (source)
  • For the most remarkable aspect of the affair was, that, at the cessation of the music, everybody was petrified at once, from the most extravagant life into a dead torpor.†   (source)
  • In fact, that lady did presently descend from her room, in double wonder at the noise and the subsequent cessation of Philip's music.†   (source)
  • After a partial cessation of his sensuous life, the soul of man, or its organs rather, are reinvigorated each day, and his Genius tries again what noble life it can make.†   (source)
  • But observing the cessation of the tools, he looked up, and said, in a tone of indignation, "Look there, now!†   (source)
  • The main fury of the blast had already blown over, and we apprehended little danger from the violence of the wind; but we looked forward to its total cessation with dismay; well believing, that, in our shattered condition, we should inevitably perish in the tremendous swell which would ensue.†   (source)
  • But one thing is possible, one thing she might desire," he went on, "that is the cessation of your relations and all memories associated with them.†   (source)
  • Duncan waited, until, by the cessation of the movement of the hand, he believed the strain was ended, when, by touching his shoulder, he drew the attention of the other to himself, and in a few words explained his wishes.†   (source)
  • The first thing that waked her to fuller consciousness was the cessation of the rain, and a perception that the darkness was divided by the faintest light, which parted the overhanging gloom from the immeasurable watery level below.†   (source)
  • I must inform her of my conclusion, that thinking over the terrible position in which she has placed her family, all other solutions will be worse for both sides than an external status quo, and that such I agree to retain, on the strict condition of obedience on her part to my wishes, that is to say, cessation of all intercourse with her lover.†   (source)
  • At dark I allowed Adele to put away books and work, and to run downstairs; for, from the comparative silence below, and from the cessation of appeals to the door-bell, I conjectured that Mr. Rochester was now at liberty.†   (source)
  • At length, when she found that the door resisted these assaults as if it were of stone, neither trembling nor yielding, and only betraying its not being a part of the wall by rattling a little on its heavy hinges, her courage revived, and she seized the first moment of a cessation to look down through the loop, in order, if possible, to learn the extent of her danger.†   (source)
  • And when Jarvis Lorry saw the kindled eyes, the resolute face, the calm strong look and bearing of the man whose life always seemed to him to have been stopped, like a clock, for so many years, and then set going again with an energy which had lain dormant during the cessation of its usefulness, he believed.†   (source)
  • His notes were gradually growing louder, and soon rose to a height that caused a general cessation in the discourse.†   (source)
  • Lulled by the sound, I at last dropped asleep; I had not long slumbered when the sudden cessation of motion awoke me; the coach-door was open, and a person like a servant was standing at it: I saw her face and dress by the light of the lamps.†   (source)
  • The appearance of Judge Temple and the ladies produced, if not a pacification, at least a cessation of hostilities.†   (source)
  • Elizabeth, perhaps conscious of the improper phraseology of her last speech, or perhaps excited by the new object that met her gaze, was the first to break the awkward cessation in the discourse, by exclaiming: "Look, Louisa!†   (source)
  • "I suppose you will go and stay with your brother and sister, Miss Dashwood, when they come to town," said Lucy, returning, after a cessation of hostile hints, to the charge.†   (source)
  • The cessation of existence of both or either, the inauguration of a new era or calendar, the annihilation of the world and consequent extermination of the human species, inevitable but impredictable.†   (source)
  • I say I bring thee Muse to-day and here,
    All occupations, duties broad and close,
    Toil, healthy toil and sweat, endless, without cessation,
    The old, old practical burdens, interests, joys,
    The family, parentage, childhood, husband and wife,
    The house-comforts, the house itself and all its belongings,
    Food and its preservation, chemistry applied to it,
    Whatever forms the average, strong, complete, sweet-blooded man or
    woman, the perfect longeve personality,
    And helps its present life to health and happiness, and shapes its soul,
    For the eternal real life to come.†   (source)
  • The fair one, enraged at her frequent disappointments, determined on a short cessation of arms.†   (source)
  • Anselmo remarked the cessation of Lothario's visits, and complained of it to him, saying that if he had known that marriage was to keep him from enjoying his society as he used, he would have never married; and that, if by the thorough harmony that subsisted between them while he was a bachelor they had earned such a sweet name as that of "The Two Friends," he should not allo†   (source)
  • For those men that are so remissely governed, that they dare take up Armes, to defend, or introduce an Opinion, are still in Warre; and their condition not Peace, but only a Cessation of Armes for feare of one another; and they live as it were, in the procincts of battaile continually.†   (source)
  • Taking therefore an opportunity of a cessation of chat, she addressed herself gravely to him, and said, "Sir, I shall not possibly be able to give you an answer to-night as to that business; but if you please to leave word where I may send to you to-morrow—" Jones had natural, but not artificial good-breeding.†   (source)
  • This accident was the arrival of a coach and four; upon which my landlord and landlady immediately desisted from fighting, and at their entreaty obtained the same favour of their antagonists: but Susan was not so kind to Partridge; for that Amazonian fair having overthrown and bestrid her enemy, was now cuffing him lustily with both her hands, without any regard to his request of a cessation of arms, or to those loud exclamations of murder which he roared forth.†   (source)
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