5 uses
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Definition
to stop or discontinue
- After a time we ceased to do that, and looked only at the Time Traveller's face.Chapter 2 (99% in)
- The difficulty of increasing population had been met, I guessed, and population had ceased to increase.Chapter 4 (84% in)
- The bright little figures ceased to move about below, a noiseless owl flitted by, and I shivered with the chill of the night.Chapter 5 (1% in)
- When I saw them I ceased abruptly to trouble about the Morlocks, and was only concerned in banishing these signs of the human inheritance from Weena's eyes.Chapter 5 (99% in)
- The band of light that had indicated the sun had long since disappeared; for the sun had ceased to set—it simply rose and fell in the west, and grew ever broader and more red.Chapter 11 (14% in)
There are no more uses of "cease" in The Time Machine.
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