All 10 Uses of
cease
in
Hard Times
- The lights in the great factories, which looked, when they were illuminated, like Fairy palaces — or the travellers by expresstrain said so — were all extinguished; and the bells had rung for knocking off for the night, and had ceased again; and the Hands, men and women, boy and girl, were clattering home.†
Chpt 1.10
- But, they were broken now, and the rain had ceased, and the moon shone, — looking down the high chimneys of Coketown on the deep furnaces below, and casting Titanic shadows of the steam-engines at rest, upon the walls where they were lodged.†
Chpt 1.10
- He closed his eyes, more to please her than to rest his weary head; but, by slow degrees as he listened to the great noise of the wind, he ceased to hear it, or it changed into the working of his loom, or even into the voices of the day (his own included) saying what had been really said.†
Chpt 1.13
- The disparity I have mentioned, therefore, almost ceases to be disparity, and (virtually) all but disappears.'†
Chpt 1.15 *
- She felt as though she would have been glad that it rang on until daylight; but it ceased, and the circles of its last sound spread out fainter and wider in the air, and all was dead again.†
Chpt 2.8
- The ground on which I stand has ceased to be solid under my feet.†
Chpt 3.1
- CHAPTER IV — LOST THE robbery at the Bank had not languished before, and did not cease to occupy a front place in the attention of the principal of that establishment now.†
Chpt 3.4
- Here Mrs. Sparsit ceased; for Mr. Bounderby's visage exhibited an extraordinary combination of all possible colours and expressions of discomfiture, as old Mrs. Pegler was disclosed to his view.†
Chpt 3.5
- The bystanders, on and off the dining-room chairs, raised a murmur of sympathy with Mrs. Pegler, and Mr. Gradgrind felt himself innocently placed in a very distressing predicament, when Mr. Bounderby, who had never ceased walking up and down, and had every moment swelled larger and larger, and grown redder and redder, stopped short.†
Chpt 3.5
- Engines at pits' mouths, and lean old horses that had worn the circle of their daily labour into the ground, were alike quiet; wheels had ceased for a short space to turn; and the great wheel of earth seemed to revolve without the shocks and noises of another time.†
Chpt 3.6
Definition:
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(cease) to stop or discontinue