All 50 Uses of
cease
in
Light in August
- Her hand has ceased now.†
Chpt 1
- His voice ceases.†
Chpt 2
- 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 3
- His voice ceases.†
Chpt 4
- His voice ceases also.†
Chpt 4
- His voice ceased, died, recapitulant, urgent, importunate.†
Chpt 4
- Byron ceases.†
Chpt 4
- The sound of music from the distant church has long since ceased.
Chpt 4 *ceased = stopped
- He ceases.†
Chpt 4
- 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 5
- 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 5
- 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 5
- They had seen him and they gave to one side of the road, the voices ceasing.†
Chpt 5
- Her mad eyes were quite calm, her mad voice patient and calm: it was only her light unceasing hands.†
Chpt 6
- The slow and irresistible crawling of the door did not cease.†
Chpt 6
- Her voice ceased.†
Chpt 6
- 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 8
- Her voice died, ceased.†
Chpt 8
- 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 8
- "All right," he said, not moving, his hand not ceasing.†
Chpt 8
- "All right," he said, his hand not ceasing.†
Chpt 8
- He looked at her, until her voice ceased and died away.†
Chpt 8
- Apparently he was waiting for it to cease.†
Chpt 8
- 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 9
- 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 9
- He was turning almost before his voice ceased.†
Chpt 9
- 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 10
- He walked without sound, moving in his tiny island of abruptly ceased insects.†
Chpt 10
- 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 10
- He did not even cease to chew.†
Chpt 10
- He hurled it, hard, waiting until the crash ceased.†
Chpt 11
- 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 12
- 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 12
Definition:
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(cease) to stop or discontinue