All 5 Uses of
desist
in
The War of the Worlds
- I hammered at the door, but I could not make the people hear (if there were any people inside), and after a time I desisted, and, availing myself of a ditch for the greater part of the way, succeeded in crawling, unobserved by these monstrous machines, into the pine woods towards Maybury.†
Chpt 1.10 *desisted = stopped
- One of the men desisted and turned towards him, and my brother, realising from his antagonist's face that a fight was unavoidable, and being an expert boxer, went into him forthwith and sent him down against the wheel of the chaise.†
Chpt 1.16
- The bottle struck the floor and broke, and I desisted and rose.†
Chpt 2.4
- He would neither desist from his attacks on the food nor from his noisy babbling to himself.†
Chpt 2.4
- Then he slept awhile, and began again with renewed strength, so loudly that I must needs make him desist.†
Chpt 2.4
Definition:
to not do something