All 25 Uses of
cease
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Ceasing, he began to shave with care.†
Chpt 1 *ceasing = stopping or discontinuing
- He rooted in the sand, dabbling, delving and stopped to listen to the air, scraped up the sand again with a fury of his claws, soon ceasing, a pard, a panther, got in spousebreach, vulturing the dead.†
Chpt 3
- And, spent, its speech ceases.†
Chpt 3ceases = stops or discontinues
- Her spoon ceased to stir up the sugar.†
Chpt 4ceased = stopped or discontinued
- He ceased.†
Chpt 6
- Must have been that morning in Raymond terrace she was at the window watching the two dogs at it by the wall of the cease to do evil.†
Chpt 6cease = stop or discontinue
- The barrow had ceased to trundle.†
Chpt 6ceased = stopped or discontinued
- He ceased and looked at them, enjoying a silence.†
Chpt 7
- Her hand ceased to rummage.†
Chpt 8
- When the sound of his boots had ceased Davy Byrne said from his book: —What is this he is?†
Chpt 8
- Felicitously he ceased and held a meek head among them, auk's egg, prize of their fray.†
Chpt 9
- His unremitting intellect is the hornmad Iago ceaselessly willing that the moor in him shall suffer.†
Chpt 9ceaselessly = in a manner that does not stopstandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in ceaselessly means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
- Cease to strive.†
Chpt 9cease = stop or discontinue
- The gay sweet chirping whistling within went on a bar or two, ceased.†
Chpt 10ceased = stopped or discontinued
- The disk shot down the groove, wobbled a while, ceased and ogled them: six.†
Chpt 10
- It shot down the groove, wobbled a while, ceased, ogling them: six.†
Chpt 10
- For they garner the succulent berries of the hop and mass and sift and bruise and brew them and they mix therewith sour juices and bring the must to the sacred fire and cease not night or day from their toil, those cunning brothers, lords of the vat.†
Chpt 12cease = stop or discontinue
- Malachias, overcome by emotion, ceased.†
Chpt 14ceased = stopped or discontinued
- Oaths of a man roar, mutter, cease.†
Chpt 15cease = stop or discontinue
- Tuberculosis, lunacy, war and mendicancy must now cease.†
Chpt 15
- (He ceases suddenly and holds up a forefinger) BELLA: (Laughing) Omelette... THE WHORES: (Laughing) Encore†
Chpt 15ceases = stops or discontinues
- The prelude ceases†
Chpt 15
- Cease fire!†
Chpt 15cease = stop or discontinue
- Tired seemingly, he ceased.†
Chpt 16ceased = stopped or discontinued
- That it was a Utopia, there being no known method from the known to the unknown: an infinity renderable equally finite by the suppositious apposition of one or more bodies equally of the same and of different magnitudes: a mobility of illusory forms immobilised in space, remobilised in air: a past which possibly had ceased to exist as a present before its probable spectators had entered actual present existence.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
to stop or discontinue