All 5 Uses of
cease
in
Cry, the Beloved Country
- And the cars and the lorries never ceased, going one way or the other.†
Chpt 1.8 *
- And then in one fraction of time the hills with the deep melodious names stood out waste and desolate beneath the pitiless sun, the streams ceased to run, the cattle moved thin and listless over the red and rootless earth.†
Chpt 1.10
- Let us cease to work and this industry will die.†
Chpt 2.26
- And I say, it is better to cease to work than to work for such wages.†
Chpt 2.26
- And might not another feel also a compulsion, and pray night and day without ceasing, for the restoration of some other valley that would never be restored?†
Chpt 3.36
Definition:
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(cease) to stop or discontinue