All 24 Uses of
cease
in
Middlemarch
- He thought it probable that Miss Brooke liked him, and manners must be very marked indeed before they cease to be interpreted by preconceptions either confident or distrustful.†
Chpt 1
- He came much oftener than Mr. Casaubon, and Dorothea ceased to find him disagreeable since he showed himself so entirely in earnest; for he had already entered with much practical ability into Lovegood's estimates, and was charmingly docile.†
Chpt 1
- She bowed ceremoniously to Mrs. Waule, who said stiffly, "How do you do, miss?" smiled and nodded silently to Mary, and remained standing till the coughing should cease, and allow her uncle to notice her.†
Chpt 1
- But I shall not therefore drop one iota of my convictions, or cease to identify myself with that truth which an evil generation hates.†
Chpt 2
- Before it ceased Mr. Farebrother came in—a handsome, broad-chested but otherwise small man, about forty, whose black was very threadbare: the brilliancy was all in his quick gray eyes.†
Chpt 2
- But she was gradually ceasing to expect with her former delightful confidence that she should see any wide opening where she followed him.†
Chpt 2 *
- Through all the stages of his education he had kept his affection for the Garths, and his habit of going to their house as a second home, though any intercourse between them and the elders of his family had long ceased.†
Chpt 3
- Sir James had long ceased to have any regrets on his own account: his heart was satisfied with his engagement to Celia.†
Chpt 3
- He trusted that he should make the best return, if return were possible, by showing the effectiveness of the education for which he was indebted, and by ceasing in future to need any diversion towards himself of funds on which others might have a better claim.†
Chpt 3
- He sat in unaltered calm, and, in fact, the company, preoccupied with more important problems, and with the complication of listening to bequests which might or might not be revoked, had ceased to think of him.†
Chpt 4
- "Then I will stay," said Ladislaw, shaking his head backward, rising and going towards the window, as if to see whether the rain had ceased.†
Chpt 4
- Mr. Bulstrode met all the expenses, and had ceased to be sorry that he was purchasing the right to carry out his notions of improvement without hindrance from prejudiced coadjutors; but he had had to spend large sums, and the building had lingered.†
Chpt 5
- His was one of the natures in which conscience gets the more active when the yoke of life ceases to gall them.†
Chpt 5
- We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come.†
Chpt 6
- It is true Lydgate was constantly visiting the homes of the poor and adjusting his prescriptions of diet to their small means; but, dear me! has it not by this time ceased to be remarkable—is it not rather that we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?†
Chpt 6
- Another tear fell as Rosamond ceased speaking, and she pressed it away as quietly as the first.†
Chpt 7
- Under the circumstances I have indicated, of course I must cease to have any personal share in the management, and it is contrary to my views of responsibility to continue a large application of means to an institution which I cannot watch over and to some extent regulate.†
Chpt 7
- In this way any difficulty as to the adequate maintenance of our new establishment will be removed; the benevolent interests of the town will cease to be divided.†
Chpt 7
- He had taken the precaution of bringing opium in his pocket, and he gave minute directions to Bulstrode as to the doses, and the point at which they should cease.†
Chpt 7
- He insisted on the risk of not ceasing; and repeated his order that no alcohol should be given.†
Chpt 7
- The thought was, that he had not told Mrs. Abel when the doses of opium must cease.†
Chpt 7
- When Will had ceased to speak she had become an image of sickened misery: her lips were pale, and her eyes had a tearless dismay in them.†
Chpt 8
- But she ceased thinking how anything would turn out—merely wondering what would come.†
Chpt 8
- Sir James never ceased to regard Dorothea's second marriage as a mistake; and indeed this remained the tradition concerning it in Middlemarch, where she was spoken of to a younger generation as a fine girl who married a sickly clergyman, old enough to be her father, and in little more than a year after his death gave up her estate to marry his cousin—young enough to have been his son, with no property, and not well-born.†
Chpt Fin.
Definition:
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(cease) to stop or discontinue