All 18 Uses of
cease
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- The cradle-rocking and the song would cease simultaneously for a moment, and an exclamation at highest vocal pitch would take the place of the melody.†
Chpt 1cease = stop or discontinue
- The harvesters ceased working, took their provisions, and sat down against one of the shocks.†
Chpt 2 *ceased = stopped or discontinued
- The typical and unvarying Hodge ceased to exist.†
Chpt 3
- Angel, who was filling the vats with his handful, suddenly ceased, and laid his hands flat upon hers.†
Chpt 4
- When she ceased, the auricular impressions from their previous endearments seemed to hustle away into the corner of their brains, repeating themselves as echoes from a time of supremely purblind foolishness.†
Chpt 5
- When sorrow ceases to be speculative, sleep sees her opportunity.†
Chpt 5ceases = stops or discontinues
- Moreover, his affection itself was less fire than radiance, and, with regard to the other sex, when he ceased to believe he ceased to follow: contrasting in this with many impressionable natures, who remain sensuously infatuated with what they intellectually despise.†
Chpt 5ceased = stopped or discontinued
- Moreover, his affection itself was less fire than radiance, and, with regard to the other sex, when he ceased to believe he ceased to follow: contrasting in this with many impressionable natures, who remain sensuously infatuated with what they intellectually despise.†
Chpt 5
- He waited till her sobbing ceased.†
Chpt 5
- His momentary laughter at the horror which appeared on her fair face ceased when it merged in pain and anxiety for his welfare.†
Chpt 5
- A pattering of hoofs on the soil of the field, which they had not noticed in their preoccupation, ceased close behind them; and a voice reached her ear: "What the devil are you doing away from your work at this time o' day?"†
Chpt 6
- It was the ceaselessness of the work which tried her so severely, and began to make her wish that she had never some to Flintcomb-Ash.†
Chpt 6ceaselessness = the condition of continuing or seeming to continue without end
- Dinner-time came, and the whirling ceased; whereupon Tess left her post, her knees trembling so wretchedly with the shaking of the machine that she could scarcely walk.†
Chpt 6ceased = stopped or discontinued
- The rat was at last dislodged, and, amid the barking of dogs, masculine shouts, feminine screams, oaths, stampings, and confusion as of Pandemonium, Tess untied her last sheaf; the drum slowed, the whizzing ceased, and she stepped from the machine to the ground.†
Chpt 6
- The rain had nearly ceased, and she opened the casement in obedience to his gesture.†
Chpt 6
- By this time Clare abhorred the house for ceasing to contain Tess, and hastened away from its hated presence without once looking back.†
Chpt 7ceasing = stopping or discontinuing
- But he had a vague consciousness of one thing, though it was not clear to him till later; that his original Tess had spiritually ceased to recognize the body before him as hers—allowing it to drift, like a corpse upon the current, in a direction dissociated from its living will.†
Chpt 7ceased = stopped or discontinued
- She ceased, and he fell into thought.†
Chpt 7
Definitions:
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(1)
(cease) to stop or discontinue
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Note that the expression, cease fire means to stop doing battle such as firing funs at each other. Similarly, the noun, cease-fire, is a state of having stopped doing battle.