All 30 Uses of
cease
in
Sea Wolf
- "And now they're payin' their respects to each other and tryin' to get clear," the red-faced man went on, as the hurried whistling ceased.†
Chpt 1ceased = stopped or discontinued
- The man addressed as Yonson, a man of the heavy Scandinavian type, ceased chafing me, and arose awkwardly to his feet.†
Chpt 2
- The captain, or Wolf Larsen, as men called him, ceased pacing and gazed down at the dying man.†
Chpt 2
- Wolf Larsen ceased swearing as suddenly as he had begun.†
Chpt 3
- He ceased speaking.†
Chpt 3
- It is like yeast, a ferment, a thing that moves and may move for a minute, an hour, a year, or a hundred years, but that in the end will cease to move.†
Chpt 5cease = stop or discontinue
- Harrison ceased his progress and held on tightly.†
Chpt 6ceased = stopped or discontinued
- This rush ceased abruptly.†
Chpt 6
- And I shall know that I must die, at sea most likely, cease crawling of myself to be all a-crawl with the corruption of the sea; to be fed upon, to be carrion, to yield up all the strength and movement of my muscles that it may become strength and movement in fin and scale and the guts of fishes.†
Chpt 7cease = stop or discontinue
- Life, when it knows that it must cease living, will always rebel.†
Chpt 11
- The Preacher found life and the works of life all a vanity and vexation, an evil thing; but death, the ceasing to be able to be vain and vexed, he found an eviler thing.†
Chpt 11ceasing = stopping or discontinuing
- It is the darkness of death, the ceasing to be, the ceasing to feel, the ceasing to move, that is gathering about you, descending upon you, rising around you.†
Chpt 11
- It is the darkness of death, the ceasing to be, the ceasing to feel, the ceasing to move, that is gathering about you, descending upon you, rising around you.†
Chpt 11
- It is the darkness of death, the ceasing to be, the ceasing to feel, the ceasing to move, that is gathering about you, descending upon you, rising around you.†
Chpt 11
- Of course there was no hope for him, not the slightest, and he knew it as well as I, but by the manhood that was in him he could not cease from fighting for that manhood.†
Chpt 12cease = stop or discontinue
- "And not one of you to get a knife!" was his unceasing lament.†
Chpt 15unceasing = 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.
- He studied it with unceasing vigilance.†
Chpt 17
- For Johnson and Leach the travail of existence had ceased.†
Chpt 19ceased = stopped or discontinued
- The jaws stopped working, the ears ceased wobbling, and though eyes remained glued on plates, each man listened greedily for the answer.†
Chpt 20
- And then I had ceased seeking.†
Chpt 23
- He ceased speaking, and his gaze wandered absently past her and became lost in the placid sea.†
Chpt 24
- As we drew nearer, the firing ceased, and we saw that the fight was over.
Chpt 25 *ceased = stopped
- He had hardly ceased reading when Louis put his head into the companion-way and whispered down: "Be easy, will ye?†
Chpt 26ceased = stopped or discontinued
- It was in such a storm, and the worst that we had experienced, that I cast a weary glance to leeward, not in quest of anything, but more from the weariness of facing the elemental strife, and in mute appeal, almost, to the wrathful powers to cease and let us be.†
Chpt 28cease = stop or discontinue
- But at the end of the week the smoke ceased rising from the galley, and he no longer showed himself on the poop.†
Chpt 33ceased = stopped or discontinued
- I ceased waving my hand, so that the shadow remained stationary.†
Chpt 33
- Not only did all forward motion cease, but we began to drift back and out to sea.†
Chpt 36cease = stop or discontinue
- I cannot see, hearing and feeling are leaving me, at this rate I shall soon cease to speak; yet all the time I shall be here, alive, active, and powerless.†
Chpt 37
- Calling to Maud to cease lowering, I went on deck and made the watch-tackle fast to the mast with a rolling hitch.†
Chpt 37
- While running away from the wind I had not appreciated its force, but when we ceased to run I learned to my sorrow, and well-nigh to my despair, how fiercely it was really blowing.†
Chpt 39ceased = stopped or discontinued
Definition:
to stop or discontinue