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Service, but also perform'd in Fact; for there was nothing wanting, that might conduce to the Recovery of my Health; even he ceas'd to persecute me with his Love, leaving me in Repose with Milena and those other
Exilius 2008
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Wind never ceas'd, beating our Vessel against the Rock, 'till it was split in a thousand Pieces.
Exilius 2008
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He ceas'd: but while he spake, Rustum had risen, 445
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School O. J. Stevenson
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The Storm, which seem'd rais'd for the Destruction of those Enemies of Mankind, and Shame of human Nature, ceas'd in few Hours after the
A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country Captain Samuel Brunt
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With pleasure swill'd the gold, nor ceas'd to draw,
The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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His waving wings had brush'd; -- thus ceas'd his tale:
The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II 43 BC-18? Ovid
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About half an Hour after the Shot began, and continued for near that Space pretty brisk, and then ceas'd.
A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country Captain Samuel Brunt
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The dissonance ceas'd, and all seem'd calm and bright;
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education
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When this dire necessity in some measure ceas'd, the mode of thinking to which it gave rise continued.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson
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But never a moment ceas'd the fight of the one and the fifty-three.
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education
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