All 32 Uses of
cease
in
Of Human Bondage
- The monthly nurse tried to quiet her, and presently, from exhaustion, the crying ceased.†
Chpt 1-2ceased = stopped or discontinued
- His uncle and aunt, seeing that he occupied himself and neither worried nor made a noise, ceased to trouble themselves about him.†
Chpt 9-10
- As time went on Philip's deformity ceased to interest.†
Chpt 11-12
- The half dozen boys who expected to divide between them the various prizes which were given at the end of the summer term had ceased to look upon Philip as a serious rival, but now they began to regard him with some uneasiness.†
Chpt 21-22
- The words were no sooner out of his mouth than he realised that he had ceased to do so.†
Chpt 27-28
- The fact was that he had ceased to believe not for this reason or the other, but because he had not the religious temperament.†
Chpt 27-28
- He was surprised at himself because he ceased to believe so easily, and, not knowing that he felt as he did on account of the subtle workings of his inmost nature, he ascribed the certainty he had reached to his own cleverness.†
Chpt 27-28
- They went to the Frau Professor and said that something must be done; it was disgraceful, and the house was ceasing to be respectable.†
Chpt 29-30ceasing = stopping or discontinuing
- He looked at her with an unceasing smile, which showed his even, little white teeth.†
Chpt 29-30unceasing = not stopping or discontinuingstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unceasing means not and reverses the meaning of ceasing. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- She never ceased reminding him that he was under a debt of gratitude to her which he could never repay.
Chpt 35-36 *ceased = stopped
- But Philip ceased to think of her a moment after he had settled down in his carriage.†
Chpt 39-40ceased = stopped or discontinued
- When Philip entered, the people in the studio had looked at him curiously, and the model gave him an indifferent glance, but now they ceased to pay attention to him.†
Chpt 39-40
- They sat on the pavement, and yellow trams passed up and down the boulevard with a ceaseless ringing of bells.†
Chpt 39-40ceaseless = 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.
- A year or two earlier Philip would have refused to share a room with anyone, since he was so sensitive about his deformed foot, but his morbid way of looking at it was growing less marked: in Paris it did not seem to matter so much, and, though he never by any chance forgot it himself, he ceased to feel that other people were constantly noticing it.†
Chpt 45-46ceased = stopped or discontinued
- She bore them no ill-will, though having loved them she had ceased to do so, and treated them with friendliness but without familiarity.†
Chpt 47-48
- Philip leaned over the rail, staring down, and he ceased to hear the music.†
Chpt 49-50
- When Philip ceased to believe in Christianity he felt that a great weight was taken from his shoulders; casting off the responsibility which weighed down every action, when every action was infinitely important for the welfare of his immortal soul, he experienced a vivid sense of liberty.†
Chpt 53-54
- Having done so he would certainly cease to think of her.†
Chpt 55-56cease = stop or discontinue
- He knew that the best thing he could do was to cease coming to the tea-shop, but he could not bear to think that he had been worsted in the affair, and he devised a plan to show her that he despised her.†
Chpt 55-56
- He wondered how he was going to endure that ceaseless aching of his soul.†
Chpt 57-58ceaseless = 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.
- He thought she might beckon to him, he was willing to forget everything, he was ready for any humiliation, but she had turned away, and apparently had ceased to trouble about him.†
Chpt 57-58ceased = stopped or discontinued
- He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another.†
Chpt 61-62cease = stop or discontinue
- He had never ceased to love her.†
Chpt 69-70ceased = stopped or discontinued
- I don't think there's any use in letting these things drag on when they've ceased to be amusing.†
Chpt 71-72
- They had ceased to look at the stage and were smiling into one another's eyes.†
Chpt 73-74
- Philip's silence at last grew too significant to struggle against, and Griffiths, suddenly nervous, ceased talking.†
Chpt 73-74
- He considered with some irony the philosophy which he had developed for himself, for it had not been of much use to him in the conjuncture he had passed through; and he wondered whether thought really helped a man in any of the critical affairs of life: it seemed to him rather that he was swayed by some power alien to and yet within himself, which urged him like that great wind of Hell which drove Paolo and Francesca ceaselessly on.†
Chpt 77-78ceaselessly = in a manner that does not stopstandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in ceaselessly means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
- She had long ceased to look upon the people who came in as human beings; they were drunks, or broken arms, or cut throats.†
Chpt 95-96ceased = stopped or discontinued
- He began to be too dazed to think clearly and ceased very much to care what would happen to him.†
Chpt 99-100
- It reminded him of his own mortality, for like everyone else Philip, knowing perfectly that all men must die, had no intimate feeling that the same must apply to himself; and Hayward's death, though he had long ceased to have any warm feeling for him, affected him deeply.†
Chpt 105-106
- It was immaterial whether he was born or not born, whether he lived or ceased to live.†
Chpt 105-106
- It would be a work of art, and it would be none the less beautiful because he alone knew of its existence, and with his death it would at once cease to be.†
Chpt 105-106cease = stop or discontinue
Definition:
to stop or discontinue