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 *ceased = stopped or discontinued
- 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 2.26cease = stop or discontinue
- 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 3.36ceasing = stopping or discontinuing
Definition:
to stop or discontinue