All 9 Uses of
cease
in
Babbitt
- Himself a pious motorist, Babbitt cranked with the unseen driver, with him waited through taut hours for the roar of the starting engine, with him agonized as the roar ceased and again began the infernal patient snap-ah-ah—a round, flat sound, a shivering cold-morning sound, a sound infuriating and inescapable.†
Chpt 1
- His stomach ceased to feel as though it did not belong to him, but Verona began to be conscientious and annoying, and abruptly there returned to Babbitt the doubts regarding life and families and business which had clawed at him when his dream-life and the slim fairy girl had fled.†
Chpt 2
- He ceased to be irritated by Ted's infatuation with a waitress (his seventh tragic affair this year); he played catch with Ted, and with pride taught him to cast a fly in the pine-shadowed silence of Skowtuit Pond.†
Chpt 11
- He was going to cease worrying about business.†
Chpt 12 *
- Babbitt blessedly ceased thinking as tramping turned into blind plodding.†
Chpt 25
- Babbitt was worried about Ted, because he had ceased complaining of the State University and become suspiciously acquiescent.†
Chpt 29
- He had ceased saying, "I WILL quit!" for however resolute he might be at dawn, he could not, for a single evening, check his drift.†
Chpt 29
- All his friends ceased whispering about him, suspecting him.†
Chpt 33
- Then did Babbitt, almost tearful with joy at being coaxed instead of bullied, at being permitted to stop fighting, at being able to desert without injuring his opinion of himself, cease utterly to be a domestic revolutionist.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(cease) to stop or discontinue