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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
surcease .
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Examples
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The morris-dancers stood still — the hobby-horse surceased his capering — pipe and tabor were mute, and
The Abbot 2008
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Forthwith the wind surceased, the ocean became silent, the tempest is appeased, and a great calm is made.
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Then the people being restrained from their fury, the waters surceased from their fury also.
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Once, and suddenly, the Ravenous surceased a moment.
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"Confound that cunning old aunt of mine," said Simon, aloud; and took no notice that the snores surceased.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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It was a pleasant and sociable meal, and, thanks to my cold beef and coffee at home, I had no occasion to trouble myself much about the fare; so I just ate some delicate chicken, and a very small cutlet, and a slice of dry toast, and thereupon surceased from my labors.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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It was a pleasant and sociable meal, and, thanks to my cold beef and coffee at home, I had no occasion to trouble myself much about the fare; so I just ate some delicate chicken, and a very small cutlet, and a slice of dry toast, and thereupon surceased from my labors.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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-- But all his bloody schemes for overturning that covenanted interest that he had so solemnly bound himself to defend and maintain, proving abortive, he fell at last into the hands of Cromwel and the Independent faction, who never surceased, till they brought him to the block, Jan. 30. 1649.
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