All 14 Uses of
cease
in
The Red Badge of Courage
- For days he made ceaseless calculations, but they were all wondrously unsatisfactory.†
Chpt 2
- The men became so engrossed in this affair that they entirely ceased to remember their own large war.†
Chpt 2
- The landscape then ceased to threaten the youth.†
Chpt 3
- He got the one glance at the foe-swarming field in front of him, and instantly ceased to debate the question of his piece being loaded.†
Chpt 5
- The shells, which had ceased to trouble the regiment for a time, came swirling again, and exploded in the grass or among the leaves of the trees.
Chpt 6 *ceased = stopped or discontinued
- Since the youth's arrival as a guardian for his friend, the other wounded men had ceased to display much interest.†
Chpt 9
- There was in the sound an expression of a deadly persistency, as if it had not began and was not to cease.†
Chpt 14
- Once he, in his intent hate, was almost alone, and was firing, when all those near him had ceased.†
Chpt 17
- But his oration ceased as he saw their eyes, which were large with great tales.†
Chpt 18
- The moment the regiment ceased its advance the protesting splutter of musketry became a steadied roar.†
Chpt 19
- Occasionally he would cease to remember it, and be about to emphasize an oath with a sweeping gesture.†
Chpt 20
- He ceased because several men had come hurrying up.†
Chpt 21
- At sight of this danger the men suddenly ceased their cursing monotone.†
Chpt 22
- The stentorian speeches of the artillery continued in some distant encounter, but the crashes of the musketry had almost ceased.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(cease) to stop or discontinue