All 16 Uses of
cease
in
The War of the Worlds
- It must be, if the nebular hypothesis has any truth, older than our world; and long before this earth ceased to be molten, life upon its surface must have begun its course.†
Chpt 1.1
- Why the shots ceased after the tenth no one on earth has attempted to explain.†
Chpt 1.1
- But now the sounds inside had ceased, and a thin circle of bright metal showed between the top and the body of the cylinder.†
Chpt 1.2
- The top had certainly ceased to rotate.†
Chpt 1.3
- Forth-with the hissing and humming ceased, and the black, dome-like object sank slowly out of sight into the pit.†
Chpt 1.5
- When I saw how deadly white her face was, I ceased abruptly.†
Chpt 1.7
- The heavy firing that had broken out while we were driving down Maybury Hill ceased as abruptly as it began, leaving the evening very peaceful and still.†
Chpt 1.10
- I ceased my laboured reasoning, struggled to my feet, and, standing over him, laid my hand on his shoulder.†
Chpt 1.13
- The porters told him that several remarkable telegrams had been received in the morning from Byfleet and Chertsey stations, but that these had abruptly ceased.†
Chpt 1.14
- The occasional howling of the Martians had ceased; they took up their positions in the huge crescent about their cylinders in absolute silence.†
Chpt 1.15
- A distant tumult of shouting began and ceased.†
Chpt 1.15
- As they grew hungry the rights of property ceased to be regarded.
Chpt 1.17 *ceased = discontinued
- I thought I had become deaf, for the noises of movement I had been accustomed to hear from the pit had ceased absolutely.†
Chpt 2.5
- As I crossed the bridge, the sound of "Ulla, ulla, ulla, ulla," ceased.†
Chpt 2.8
- With overwhelming force came the thought of myself, of my wife, and the old life of hope and tender helpfulness that had ceased for ever.†
Chpt 2.8
- The church bells that had ceased a fortnight since suddenly caught the news, until all England was bell-ringing.†
Chpt 2.9
Definition:
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(cease) to stop or discontinue