All 12 Uses of
cease
in
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- So accustomed was I to his invariable success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to enter into my head.†
Chpt 1ceased = stopped or discontinued
- In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an individual and becomes the badge of a society.†
Chpt 5ceases = stops or discontinues
- Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the forecastle of an emigrant ship.†
Chpt 6ceaseless = never-endingstandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in ceaseless means without and reverses the meaning of cease. This is the same pattern you see in words like harmless, fearless, and powerless.
- This may account also for the obvious fact that his wife has ceased to love him.†
Chpt 7ceased = stopped or discontinued
- But his wife—you said that she had ceased to love him.†
Chpt 7
- He had ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most horrible cry to which I have ever listened.†
Chpt 8
- X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves.†
Chpt 10
- It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an impression behind it as though a window had gently closed somewhere.†
Chpt 11
- I answered that it had ceased to be a private matter, but had become a public one,
Chpt 11 *ceased = stopped
- "It would cease to be a danger if we could define it," said he.†
Chpt 12cease = stop or discontinue
- I read for about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and to change my dress.†
Chpt 12
- As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success.†
Chpt 12ceased = stopped or discontinued
Definitions:
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(1)
(cease) to stop or discontinue
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Note that the expression, cease fire means to stop doing battle such as firing funs at each other. Similarly, the noun, cease-fire, is a state of having stopped doing battle.