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to stop or discontinue
- I began to dream, almost before I ceased to be sensible of my locality.Chapter 3 (29% in)
- I let the poor things converse unmolested, till I supposed the songs were going to cease, and the singers to get some refreshment: then I clambered up the ladder to warn her.Chapter 7 (75% in)
- Catherine and he were constant companions still at his seasons of respite from labour; but he had ceased to express his fondness for her in words, and recoiled with angry suspicion from her girlish caresses, as if conscious there could be no gratification in lavishing such marks of affection on him.Chapter 8 (53% in)
- From that period, for several months, she ceased to hold any communication with me, save in the relation of a mere servant.Chapter 9 (92% in)
- The conversation ceased.Chapter 11 (44% in)
- The moment her regard ceased, I would have torn his heart out, and drunk his blood!Chapter 14 (32% in)
- He had ceased drinking at a point below irrationality, and had neither stirred nor spoken during two or three hours.Chapter 17 (28% in)
- Isabella ceased speaking, and took a drink of tea; then she rose, and bidding me put on her bonnet, and a great shawl I had brought, and turning a deaf ear to my entreaties for her to remain another hour, she stepped on to a chair, kissed Edgar's and Catherine's portraits, bestowed a similar salute on me, and descended to the carriage, accompanied by Fanny, who yelped wild with joy at recovering her mistress.Chapter 17 (70% in)
- Grief, and that together, transformed him into a complete hermit: he threw up his office of magistrate, ceased even to attend church, avoided the village on all occasions, and spent a life of entire seclusion within the limits of his park and grounds; only varied by solitary rambles on the moors, and visits to the grave of his wife, mostly at evening, or early morning before other wanderers were abroad.Chapter 17 (76% in)
- Her hat was hung against the wall, and she seemed perfectly at home, laughing and chattering, in the best spirits imaginable, to Hareton — now a great, strong lad of eighteen — who stared at her with considerable curiosity and astonishment: comprehending precious little of the fluent succession of remarks and questions which her tongue never ceased pouring forth.Chapter 18 (47% in)
- He took off the boy's cap and pushed back his thick flaxen curls, felt his slender arms and his small fingers; during which examination Linton ceased crying, and lifted his great blue eyes to inspect the inspector.Chapter 20 (63% in)
There are no more uses of "cease" in Wuthering Heights.
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