10557 examples of ceasing in sentences

Man is fast ceasing to be the unit of human society.

Also, two people seem much to each other as they await alone the ceasing of the rain or the coming of the delayed boat.

He was like some little wild animal when it finds itself captive in a cage or box or room, who tries without ceasing to find a way out.

With these terms Kaotsou felt obliged to comply, and thus for the first time this never-ceasing collision between the tribes of the desert and the agriculturists of the plains of China closed with the admitted triumph of the former.

Priestley, for his part, however, regretted the change; the old subscription was in reality ceasing to be enforced, and he was afraid lest persecuting vigilance would set in again.

Under the healing influence of time, the South, still young and energetic, ceasing to think of one thing alone, will quickly turn its attention to many.

Here is perpetual fixity of form, perpetual flux of constituent,the ideas of Nature never changing, the material realization of them never ceasing to change.

The idea of property having a will, and that too in opposition to the will of its owner, and counteracting it, is a stimulant of terrible power to the most relentless human passions and from the nature of slavery, and the constitution of the human mind, this fierce stimulant must, with various degrees of strength, act upon slaveholders almost without ceasing.

In ceasing from oppression, we establish liberty.

Young Lennox knew that the attack, if it came at all, would not come until late, and restraining his naturally eager and impatient temper, he used all the patience that his strong will could summon, never ceasing meanwhile to lend an attentive ear to every sound of the night.

He is The Son of God by an eternal never- ceasing generation; we are the sons of God by adoption.

"Good as he was," continues M. de Beaumont, "he aspired without ceasing to become better; and it is certain that each day he drew nearer to that moral perfection which seemed to him the only end worthy of man....

Bless the Lord, without ceasing, for the exchange.

Everywhere he went the people looked at him, ceasing their varied occupations.

If Mr. Raleigh had found no time for reflection in the busy current of affairs, when, ceasing to stand aside, he had mingled in the turmoil and become a part of the generations of men, he could not fail to find it in this voyage, not brief at best, and of which every day's progress must assure him anew toward what land and what people he was hastening.

The young minister was wretchedlamented without ceasing the enjoyments of Leipzigmissed the society of his fellow students, and actually began to meditate taking a wife.

When one-half of the attendants at a church are unbelievers, will that warrant us in ceasing to attend, or shall we tarry until the dissemblers number two-thirds?

Here he not only found abundance of water for all he wanted, but to his surprise he also found a sandy bottom, formed no doubt by the particles washed from the surrounding rocks under the never-ceasing abrasion of the waves.

But, at my ease, thy destiny I send, By ceasing from this hour to be thy friend.

If then, the Almightly do not grant our petitions, let us adore His justice, let us be silent, let us humble ourselves, and let us pray without ceasing.

And then there was the never-ceasing thud, thud, thud of the crushing-mill, which from twelve o'clock on Sunday night to twelve o'clock on Saturday night, never paused for a moment, having the effect, on that vacant day, of creating a painful strain of silence upon the ears of those who were compelled to remain on the spot during the unoccupied time.

"You have made me perfectly happy," he said, never ceasing to smile.

These are to be found both on Wheeler & Wilson's manufacturing machine and upon Singer's highly finished "Family" machine, which also carries a most ingenious automatic reel winder, capable of doing all the work itself, and ceasing to act as soon as the bobbin is filled.

[Footnote: A reference to Hilda's ceasing to consider herself an original artist in the presence of the great masters.

This would be achieved only by not desiring anything more, in other words by ceasing to love.

10557 examples of  ceasing  in sentences