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to stop or discontinue
- She had witnessed the intense misery beneath which the minister struggled, or, to speak more accurately, had ceased to struggle.Chapter 13 — Another View of Hester (88% in)
- I had ceased to be a writer of tolerably poor tales and essays, and had become a tolerably good Surveyor of the Customs.Introductory (83% in)
- Henceforth it ceases to be a reality of my life; I am a citizen of somewhere else.Introductory (99% in)
- The moans of the little patient subsided; its convulsive tossings gradually ceased; and in a few moments, as is the custom of young children after relief from pain, it sank into a profound and dewy slumber.Chapter 4 — The Interview (31% in)
- Throughout all, however, there was a trait of passion, a certain depth of hue, which she never lost; and if in any of her changes, she had grown fainter or paler, she would have ceased to be herself—it would have been no longer Pearl!Chapter 6 — Pearl (16% in)
- The young minister, on ceasing to speak had withdrawn a few steps from the group, and stood with his face partially concealed in the heavy folds of the window-curtain; while the shadow of his figure, which the sunlight cast upon the floor, was tremulous with the vehemence of his appeal.Chapter 8 — The Elf-child and the Minister (81% in)
- And he himself in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.Chapter 11 — The Interior of a Heart (95% in)
- She who has once been a woman, and ceased to be so, might at any moment become a woman again, if there were only the magic touch to effect the transformation.Chapter 13 — Another View of Hester (58% in)
- All these giant trees and boulders of granite seemed intent on making a mystery of the course of this small brook; fearing, perhaps, that, with its never-ceasing loquacity, it should whisper tales out of the heart of the old forest whence it flowed, or mirror its revelations on the smooth surface of a pool.Chapter 16 — A Forest Walk (65% in)
- There on the table, with the inky pen beside it, was an unfinished sermon, with a sentence broken in the midst, where his thoughts had ceased to gush out upon the page two days before.Chapter 20 — The Minister in a Maze (79% in)
- But, in the lapse of the toilsome, thoughtful, and self-devoted years that made up Hester's life, the scarlet letter ceased to be a stigma which attracted the world's scorn and bitterness, and became a type of something to be sorrowed over, and looked upon with awe, yet with reverence too.Chapter 24 — Conclusion (80% in)
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