All 50 Uses of
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Light in August
- Her hand has ceased now.†
Chpt 1ceased = stopped or discontinued
- His voice ceases.†
Chpt 2ceases = stops or discontinues
- In the middle of the sermon she sprang from the bench and began to scream, to shriek something toward the pulpit, shaking her hands toward the pulpit where her husband had ceased talking, leaning forward with his hands raised and stopped.†
Chpt 3ceased = stopped or discontinued
- His voice ceases.†
Chpt 4ceases = stops or discontinues
- His voice ceases also.†
Chpt 4
- His voice ceased, died, recapitulant, urgent, importunate.†
Chpt 4ceased = stopped or discontinued
- Byron ceases.†
Chpt 4ceases = stops or discontinues
- The sound of music from the distant church has long since ceased.
Chpt 4 *ceased = stopped
- He ceases.†
Chpt 4ceases = stops or discontinues
- Byron ceases and looks, glances once, at the man beyond the desk.†
Chpt 4
- Byron's voice ceases.†
Chpt 4
- Yet Brown ceased at once.†
Chpt 5ceased = stopped or discontinued
- He stooped, astride Brown, and found his collar and hauled him out from beneath the cot and raised Brown's head and began to strike him with his flat hand, short, vicious, and hard, until Brown ceased laughing.†
Chpt 5
- Christmas held him until he ceased and became still.†
Chpt 5
- Brown ceased and lay still again.†
Chpt 5
- He had slept more than two hours this time, because the sun was shining down upon the spring itself, glinting and glancing upon the ceaseless water.†
Chpt 5ceaseless = 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.
- So still and baleful that a negro youth shuffling up the street whistling saw Christmas' profile and ceased whistling and edged away and slid past behind him, turning, looking back over his shoulder.†
Chpt 5ceased = stopped or discontinued
- They had seen him and they gave to one side of the road, the voices ceasing.†
Chpt 5ceasing = stopping or discontinuing
- Her mad eyes were quite calm, her mad voice patient and calm: it was only her light unceasing hands.†
Chpt 6unceasing = 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.
- The slow and irresistible crawling of the door did not cease.†
Chpt 6cease = stop or discontinue
- It had gone completely out of my mind when—" Her voice ceased.†
Chpt 6ceased = stopped or discontinued
- But it's not our fault, either—" She ceased, watching the matron.†
Chpt 6
- Again the matron's voice was cold and immediate, speaking almost before his had ceased: "I can perhaps give you as much information about this or any other of our children as Miss Atkins can, since her official connection here is only with the diningroom and kitchen.†
Chpt 6
- When he approached the fluting of young frogs ceased like so many strings cut with simultaneous scissors.†
Chpt 7
- He did not cease to remember it, to react it.†
Chpt 8cease = stop or discontinue
- Her voice died, ceased.†
Chpt 8ceased = stopped or discontinued
- The blonde woman had never looked at him at all, and the man, without looking at him, had never ceased.†
Chpt 8
- His eyes were closed, his hand slow and unceasing.†
Chpt 8unceasing = 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.
- "All right," he said, not moving, his hand not ceasing.†
Chpt 8ceasing = stopping or discontinuing
- "All right," he said, his hand not ceasing.†
Chpt 8
- He looked at her, until her voice ceased and died away.†
Chpt 8ceased = stopped or discontinued
- Apparently he was waiting for it to cease.†
Chpt 8cease = stop or discontinue
- His voice thundered, into the shocked silence, the shocked surrounding faces beneath the kerosene lamps, into the ceased music, into the peaceful moonlit night of young summer.†
Chpt 9ceased = stopped or discontinued
- At once she ceased struggling and turned on him the fury, the shrieking, as if she had just seen him, realised that he was also there.†
Chpt 9
- Don't a one of you move, now," he said, looking steadily and ceaselessly at faces that might have been masks.†
Chpt 9ceaselessly = 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.
- He was turning almost before his voice ceased.†
Chpt 9ceased = stopped or discontinued
- She heard him in the hall again, fast, and after a while she heard the horse again, galloping; and after a while the sound of the horse ceased.†
Chpt 9
- The voices ceased.†
Chpt 9
- In the grass about his feet the crickets, which had ceased as he moved, keeping a little island of silence about him like thin yellow shadow of their small voices, began again, ceasing again when he moved with that tiny and alert suddenness.†
Chpt 10
- In the grass about his feet the crickets, which had ceased as he moved, keeping a little island of silence about him like thin yellow shadow of their small voices, began again, ceasing again when he moved with that tiny and alert suddenness.†
Chpt 10ceasing = stopping or discontinuing
- He walked without sound, moving in his tiny island of abruptly ceased insects.†
Chpt 10ceased = stopped or discontinued
- In a minute I will memory clicking knowing I see I see I more than see hear I hear I see my head bent I hear the monotonous dogmatic voice which I believe will never cease going on and on forever and peeping I see the indomitable bullet head the clean blunt beard they too bent and I thinking.†
Chpt 10cease = stop or discontinue
- He did not even cease to chew.†
Chpt 10
- He hurled it, hard, waiting until the crash ceased.†
Chpt 11ceased = stopped or discontinued
- Her voice ceased.†
Chpt 11
- Her voice ceased.†
Chpt 11
- Again his voice ceased; by its sound she knew that he was looking away, toward the door.†
Chpt 11
- Almost before she ceased to speak, he believed that she was lying.†
Chpt 12
- He could not distinguish the words; only the ceaseless monotone.†
Chpt 12ceaseless = 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.
- So he would stand there and wait, and after a while the voice would cease and she would open the door and he would enter.†
Chpt 12cease = stop or discontinue
Definition:
to stop or discontinue