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  • October 27, 2008 at 12:05 am you never ceast to amaze…….dunno how ya do it.

    I can haz hug? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • If you stop, life as I know it will ceast to exist.

    Oswego Tea: the friend maker Michele 2006

  • Whether it is the grooping angle or the hot-blooded Latina buzz, your paper has ceast in providing objecting reporting.

    Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Tuesday 2006

  • This storm was no sooner ceast, but it became very calm, and therewith there came such an innumerable multitude of a kind of flies of that country, called mosquitoes, like our gnats, which bit so spitefully, that we could not rest all that night, nor find means to defend ourselves from them, by reason of the heat of the country.

    Sir Francis Drake Revived Philip [Editor] Nichols

  • We turned to him as naturally as does the sun-flower to its controlling light -- but we are sustained and do not droop our heads even after this light has ceast to shine on earth.

    John Merrick. A Biographical Sketch Robert McCants 1920

  • This storm was no sooner ceast, but it became very calm, and therewith there came such an innumerable multitude of a kind of flies of that country, called mosquitoes, like our gnats, which bite so spitefully, that we could not rest all that night, nor find means to defend ourselves from them, by reason of the heat of the country.

    Sir Francis Drake Revived. Paras. 1-99 1909

  • No voice replied, (as the Captains said, yet some of their servants have said otherwise,) and the noise ceast.

    Woodstock 1855

  • The uprore had ceast, and the whole house was now quiet and silent: it seemed as if people were afraid of even breathing: all walkt about softly and on tiptoe.

    The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck Ludwig Tieck 1813

  • The youth amid the bliss of love ceast to mourn over the sorrows of his younger days; and the parents were comforted by their children and grandchildren for the loss of their beautiful and most dearly loved Crescentia.

    The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck Ludwig Tieck 1813

  • No voice replied, (as the Captains said, yet some of their servants have said otherwise,) and the noise ceast.

    Woodstock; or, the Cavalier Walter Scott 1801

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