All 8 Uses of
cease
in
Dubliners
- Like illumined pearls the lamps shone from the summits of their tall poles upon the living texture below which, changing shape and hue unceasingly, sent up into the warm grey evening air an unchanging unceasing murmur.†
Chpt 6
- As he sat there, living over his life with her and evoking alternately the two images in which he now conceived her, he realised that she was dead, that she had ceased to exist, that she had become a memory.†
Chpt 11
- His life would be lonely too until he, too, died, ceased to exist, became a memory—if anyone remembered him.†
Chpt 11 *
- When it had ceased all the auditors drank from their bottles in silence.†
Chpt 12
- An irregular musketry of applause escorted her also as far as the piano and then, as Mary Jane seated herself on the stool, and Aunt Julia, no longer smiling, half turned so as to pitch her voice fairly into the room, gradually ceased.†
Chpt 15
- Freddy Malins, who had listened with his head perched sideways to hear her better, was still applauding when everyone else had ceased and talking animatedly to his mother who nodded her head gravely and slowly in acquiescence.†
Chpt 15
- Gradually as the last glasses were being filled the conversation ceased.†
Chpt 15
- The patting at once grew louder in encouragement and then ceased altogether.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(cease) to stop or discontinue