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In not a few instances, however, there is a temporary loss or cessation of weight, due in part to an increased excretion of urine.
There I remained three days and two nights with but little cessation, when at the expiration of this time the gale abated.
The marriage of Wordsworth, in 1802, did not occasion any waning of sympathy or cessation of intercourse between him and his sister.
Instantly upon the final and definite cessation of the lawful supply of money, he had set his wits to obtain money unlawfully.
General Campos entered upon his task with the hope of bringing about a cessation of the insurrection by means of conciliatory measures.
It was, I think, the mellowing influence of a basin of raisins that loosed his tongue and set him talking without cessation.
And instances are not uncommon, in which these men have continued such recitation without any cessation for four or five hours together.
The gains thus realized by him more than counterbalanced the losses he sustained by the sudden cessation of his Southern trade.
The three regions of the universe are confounded at the cessation of their sacrifices and ceremonies in consequence of the loss of fire!
The dog, while stretched upon the rack, could have had no other refreshment than cessation from the stimulation of its nerves.
Her presence acts as a deterrent and repeated failures to overcome this domestic cloud finally result in a complete cessation of all effort.
On carefully dissecting the body, no adequate cause of the sudden cessation of life could be found in any part, except the heart.
War having become a congenial and very lucrative industry, its cessation caused want of work, with all the evils that entails.
There is always present in any case of stammering the opportunity for a cessation of the trouble for a short period of time.
It was a cessation of all sound, a silence as ominously complete as that of a summer woodland when a hawk soars overhead.
These refer to difficulties about cotton and to certain pledges given by Seward as to cessation of illegal interferences with French vessels.
Armand were taken and retaken over and over again, and for hours the desperate strife in and around them continued without cessation.
When my sketch was nearly completed, I became suddenly aware, by reason of the cessation of motion, that my craft was aground.
We must ask ourselves what consequences will ensue from a continuance of hostilities, and what will be the result of their cessation.
An empty room, a cessation of accustomed business, their mother's death can have meant little more than that to the younger children.
Armistices or truces, in the wider sense of the term, are all agreements between belligerent forces for a temporary cessation of hostilities.
This was immediately followed by a proposed cessation of hostilities for twenty-four hours, with reference to a settlement of terms of capitulation.
Renovated by the cessation of force in its first state of development, it contracts itself again, and makes another step in advance.
For three days it continued, without intermission, and with its cessation there came a frost such as I have never felt before.
A moment's carelessness, the briefest cessation of watchfulness would be at once seized upon by his excellency, enabling him to shift the advantage.
A cessation of hostilities was agreed to, upon condition that they would give up all the whites then detained by them in captivity.
I had been rather an optimist, and yet I did not consider the possibility of a cessation of hostilities before the following autumn.
They were watching, but seeing the sentinel, and finding it a chilling business to wait for our cessation of vigilance, they sneaked away.
The Spaniards, who, on the cessation of the bombardment, had sped back to their posts, met the enemy with dauntless front.
He tried to figure out the cessation: it seemed to him it was his duty to figure it out: he must unravel enigmas, supply answers.
In summarizing the story I have indicated his poetic treatment of the cessation of the desire for life and the yearning for death.
Then government charity was broached; but it was at once seen that efforts in this direction would cause the cessation of individual charity.
I examined the heart of one of the fish, and was surprised at the long continuance of pulsation after the cessation of existence.
John would rejoin that these grants must at once be curtailed, and provision made for their cessation on the demise of present incumbents.
All day long the cannonade continued, till a heavy swell setting into the harbor, in the evening, obliged a cessation of fire.
A general shout and clashing of shields, with the sudden cessation of the wild music, announced the close of this savage pageant.
This sudden stoppage of ordinary financial operations was accompanied by a similar cessation of the industries of peace over a wide range of territory.
Immediately after the cessation of a period, the cervix is soft and somewhat patent, and advantage may be taken of this fact.
This cessation of the prisoner's allowance shows, I think, better than fifty monitors to how low an ebb the French are reduced.
We have found that the first of these was the revival of learning consequent on the cessation of the ravages of the Norsemen.
The cessation of fire apparently reassured the war party, for when he had reloaded six of them the paddles again began to work.
There is the sense of alleviation, the cessation of the throb, the resuming glitter in the eye, the restoration of cheerfulness and appetite.
The earth quaked and trembled, and there being no cessation it seemed as though the Almighty had issued forth his mandate of vengeance.
The strong fingers in the dog's shaggy hair gripped upon the hateful idea of utter cessation of being, as many another has gripped.
The passing of the months had brought a sense of remoteness; it was intensified by a gradual cessation of the interchange of letters.
The increase of the sexual impulse usually begins a few days before menstruation sets in and lasts a few days after its cessation.
Some of these cessations of activity naturally and spontaneously occur in unsophisticated mankind, when darkness falls on the earth at each succeeding evening.
Nay, they rather experienced inconvenience from its cessation, and only felt annoyed when any period of rest arrived and stopped it.
As soon as the current is shut off, the filings drop away because the magnetism immediately disappears with the cessation of the current.
If the trade, in which the workmen on strike are engaged, is prosperous for the employer; cessation of production means loss of profit.
Paralysis is a weakness or cessation of the muscular contraction by diminution of loss of the conducting power or stimulation of the motor nerves.
The law of Identity expresses, therefore, not entire sameness, with which the cessation of all thought would be reached, but simple consistency.
When such agreements are for the cessation of hostilities in general, or for a considerable time, they receive the name of armistices or truces.
At one time during the battle the combatants agreed upon a brief cessation, that the dead and wounded of both sides might be removed.
An appetite for food on the fourth or fifth day of the fever, without a remission or cessation of the fever, was always unfavorable.
To a system of sight setting and fixing bayonets in order that there may be no cessation of fire in the unit during this operation.
Then, all suddenly, it bursts upon us, as the fury of the storm, when, after an hour's cessation, it takes the mariner unawares.
He had heard voices and footsteps a moment before, and, puzzled at their sudden cessation in the noiseless street, he was looking round.
She was quick to notice the sudden cessation of his song, the alert, downward poise of his beautiful head, his tense critical attitude.
The cessation of the noise made by the moving wheels and trotting horses accentuated to his ears the still silence of the night.
I was one of the unfortunates without a blanket, and was glad to see daylight come again and with it a cessation of the snowstorm.
There is the terrible ache in the heart; there is gloom over everything, and the cessation of customary occupations but increases this tenfold.
The total cessation of rent coming in was a great deprivation to landlords, who depended on their rents for the means of living.
It does not mean, as it seems to me, the cessation of conscious existence, any more than salvation means the bestowal of conscious existence.
The interchange of these principles underlies all mundane activity and existence, and upon its cessation life would wholly disappear from the planet.
Without peace or truce, without cessation or faltering, the struggle for the honor of the nation and the reparation of violated right must continue.
There was no cessation of the firing, and, in this ravine each report reverberated from one clay cliff to another in ringing, resonant notes.
All he could do was to mutter some disjointed syllables, which he did continually, without one moment's cessation, one unintelligible and most rueful moan!
Upon its cessation it may be renewed at the option of the persons then holding the estate, who must be relations of the deceased.
Constance's playing had now come to an end, and there was a general lowering of voices, occasioned by the cessation of that pianoforte accompaniment.
Ralph, at a momentary cessation of operations, wiped the grime and perspiration from his baked face, to take a scan of the fire-swept area.
We followed him around the point of the island to a sheltered nook, and there dropped anchor to await the cessation of the storm.
To efface, if possible, all traces of that sacred day, they had appointed every tenth day, for cessation from labor and festivity.
It kept dying away as the winds exceeded it in loudness, and then it came back monotonous, and was continued several minutes without cessation.
And in such cases they could not be indications of the cessation or diminution of the deepest and most docile energizing of the soul.
I came to myself thus, gazing at him, confounded, at once by the extraordinary passion which I had gone through, and its sudden cessation.
Winter brought about a temporary cessation of hostilities and on their resumption, early the next year, a reorganization of the Imperial army was made.
In the spring of 1682, on the petition of several counties, the assembly was convened for the purpose of ordering a cessation of planting.
In 1827 the three powers demanded an armistice looking toward a treaty settlement, and threatened to use force to compel a cessation of hostilities.
There must be the entire cessation of all attempt to work out by our own efforts characters that would entitle us to eternal life.
Men are as mindful of rank and pretension in their terms for the cessation of life as in their choice of tombstones for the departed.
Lingering on in the alpine regions until the first full snow, which is often before the cessation of bloom, one goes down in good company.
Sebastian on each side, and the dead dragon, show that this is a votive subject, an expression of thanksgiving after the cessation of a plague.
Two hours after the cessation of the rain, the water had disappeared, and I then perceived the use of this kind of deluge.
Commend me to such a companion in all cases of this sort, he joked, he told good stories, he sang and rattled on without cessation.
This blockade, then, is to be abandoned during the armistice, for there is to be a cessation of hostilities upon the ocean and the land.
Only the peculiarly absolute silence that came with the sudden cessation of his droning monotone checked the panic haste of her first rush.
And when old friendships among them are not allowed to fall off, there will be a cessation of underhand practices among the people.
Through the long, toilsome day the battle continued with unabated fury, and as the sun went down there was no cessation of hostilities.
There was no cessation, but these Pinks poured out a continuous fire upon these defenseless people on the hillside from port-holes cut in the barges.
The next application lasted for ten minutes and this gave rise to four pulsations, two during application, and two after cessation of light.
One undeniable fact remains, that for two hundred years this effeminate people fought without cessation or intermission for their lives and their liberties.
We reached the Indian camp about four o'clock in the afternoon, the battle having continued without cessation from early morning until that time.
The tracks of ice avalanches are almost invariably unmistakable and are swept night and day without cessation, and very frequently at regular intervals.
A sudden cessation of menstruation, the patient presenting all the appearances of good health, should immediately excite suspicion as to the nature of the cause.
In the heat of conflict it had produced a cessation of hostilities; it covered, not extinguished, the fire, and unsatisfied claims remained on either side.
The cessation of the clang of the instruments with which they had at first attempted to force the door, gave him momentary relief.
The shrinkage of credit would bring a multitude of commercial failures; the diminution of trade and the cessation of manufactures a great many more.
There was no cessation of the firing, which seemed to be advancing from west to east with a continuous succession of reports like peals of thunder.
Another and very noticeable feature of the movement, indicative of its profound influence, upon these people, was the cessation of all feuds and quarrels.