All 24 Uses of
cease
in
Journey to the Center of the Earth - Verne trnsl by G&F - 44 chptrs
- Still time went on; night came, the sounds in the streets ceased—and still my uncle went on, not even answering our worthy cook when she called us to supper.†
Chpt 3
- And I knew that by speaking one little word all this suffering would cease.†
Chpt 3
- No eruption has occurred since 1219—in fact it has ceased to be a volcano at all.†
Chpt 4
- His engagement with my uncle was by no means to cease with our arrival at Stapi; he was further to remain in his service during the whole time required for the completion of his scientific investigations, at the fixed salary of three rix-dollars a week, being exactly fourteen shillings and twopence, minus one farthing, English currency.†
Chpt 8
- The good man, ceasing from his occupation, gave a kind of halloo, upon which a tall woman, almost a giantess, came out of the hut.†
Chpt 11
- This long vertical tube, which ends at the bottom of the crater of Sneffels, ceases here just about on a level with the sea.†
Chpt 15
- An unceasing march of seven hours had not been kept up without great exhaustion.†
Chpt 15
- At length a time came when I ceased to recollect anything—when all was one awfull hideous, fantastic dream!†
Chpt 18
- Towards six o'clock, this festival of light began sensibly and visibly to decrease, and soon almost ceased.†
Chpt 19
- Besides we knew that, as soon as the declivity ceased to be so abrupt, the stream must resume its peaceful course.†
Chpt 21
- I had almost ceased to think of the sun, of the moon, of the stars, of the trees, houses, and towns; in fact, about any terrestrial necessities.†
Chpt 22
- You know very well that it is on the surface of the earth that its action is most powerfully felt, while on the contrary, in the very centre of the earth bodies cease to have any weight at all.†
Chpt 22
- There could be no doubt it had ceased to flow in the gallery in which I now was.†
Chpt 24
- As soon as I start, our voices will cease to commingle.†
Chpt 25
- But soon the end of the beast approached nearer and nearer; his movements slackened visibly; his contortions almost ceased; and at last the body of the mighty snake lay an inert, dead mass on the surface of the now calm and placid waters.†
Chpt 30
- The wind wholly ceased.
Chpt 32 *ceased = stopped
- Nature assumed a dead calm, and ceased to breathe.†
Chpt 32
- The lightning never ceases to flash for a single instant.†
Chpt 32
- The Professor with these words ceased his oration, and I burst forth into loud and "unanimous" applause.†
Chpt 35
- But I had not taken many steps when the fearful clamor ceased, to be followed by a mumbling and groaning which appeared to be indicative of victory.†
Chpt 40
- As for my individual self, my thoughts had ceased to be anything but memories of the past, and were all connected with that upper world which I never should have left.†
Chpt 42
- The ascensional movement suddenly ceased.†
Chpt 42
- The column of cinders, of scoriae, of broken rocks and earth, had wholly ceased to ascend.†
Chpt 42
- Then the hoist again ceased.†
Chpt 42
Definition:
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(cease) to stop or discontinue