4 Metaphors for ceases

Will this powerful tribe cease to be a nation on the earth?

That the Bible gives any ground for the general fancy that at death an animal ceases to exist, is but the merest dullest assumption.

"I have no joy of this contract to-night; It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, Too like the lightning which doth cease to be Ere one can say it lightens.

Not until Clem announced "Mr. Cohen" did the self-confessed collector cease to be a man.

4 Metaphors for  ceases