But all at once he ceased speaking, for Benedetta entered the room.
He ceased speaking, and neither of them said another word, both being overcome by the extreme melancholy which the surroundings fostered.
Mercer entreated him, when he ceased speaking, to calm himself; he did so with wonderful self-command.
Scarcely had I ceased speaking when a shriek resounded through the wood.
He ceased speaking, and scanned her anxiously, to mark the affect of his appeal.
He ceased speaking, whereupon the circle broke up, and all took up a position in front of the tent.
He ceased speaking, and gazed down into her face, searching anxiously for some sign that he had moved her.
When he ceased speaking, Buonaparte addressed him.
A slave was listening with watchful and half terrified attention to the injunctions of his lord—for Catiline was an unscrupulous and severe master—and, as he ceased speaking, he made a deep genuflexion and retired.
Writing materials were ready at hand, and, as he ceased speaking, Sir Edgar turned to them, and proceeded to write the proposed letter.
When he ceased speaking, a thought struck him that, as he had found her alone, the dame might have died unattended, and might be supposed to be yet living by the inattentive household.
Lord Gordon disappeared from view immediately after he ceased speaking, and during fully a moment the two boys stood facing each other, silent and motionless.
You will report to me at sunset," the general said curtly when Enoch ceased speaking, and the latter rode away to find Greene.
It is only necessary one of us shall get clear----" He ceased speaking as he was forced to halt.
He ceased speaking, and his audience crowded around him to shake hands with him, and to bless him; and before the sun was in the middle of the sky he had left St. Florent on his mission, in company with Forte and Peter Berrier.
He hurried into the house as he ceased speaking, and at the moment he did so Westerman and his thirty men turned the corner of the avenue.
As he ceased speaking, the door opened, and Adolphe Denot entered, hot with walking fast, and with his whole dress disordered by pushing through the dense masses of the crowd.
The convict stalked on as he ceased speaking, following the lead of the dog.
As he ceased speaking, he returned to the hut, and emerged leading the widow.
As he ceased speaking, we drew up before a ragged hut, at the entrance of which stood a stout Irishwoman, with a terrible dirty-faced child in her arms.
He ceased speaking, his head bent forward upon his hands.
He did not, seemingly, expect an answer to his remark, for, as he ceased speaking, he stepped before one of the windows and stood for a moment looking out upon the courtyard.
He ceased speaking as if some suspicion of the pain his words were causing had suddenly come to him.
As he ceased speaking, fatigued by the unaccustomed effort, I heard low strains of music echoing through the silent halls around us.
He ceased speaking, without having finished his sentence, as if alarmed at his own words.
It is but proper that I should make the first advances to my superior in rank and ability, and--" He ceased speaking, for at this moment Goethe and the two Charlottes appeared on the stairway.
He ceased speaking, and struggled to repress the tears that were rushing from his heart to his eyes.
He ceased speaking, and to one of those present the silence in that room seemed more than awful, till Henry spoke again.
He ceased speaking, as Henry made a snatch and caught the jewel from his hand, when, light as the action was, it was sufficient to make his now exhausted visitor stagger.
He ceased speaking, but stood with his mouth pursed up, frowning, as he tied the points in question.
I ceased speaking, and there was a slight murmurous sound in the room, as of wind long pent up in many lungs suddenly exhaled; while Runi, still unmoved, emitted a low grunt.
This seemed to weary her; but the moment I ceased speaking, and before I could well moisten my dry lips, she demanded to know what came after Caracas--after all Venezuela.
Tell me all you know," she said the moment I ceased speaking.
As he ceased speaking a burning arrow flew into the stockade and ignited the roof of one of the houses, while the women and children--much terrified--rushed into the street with wails of distress.
He pointed, as he ceased speaking, to the ground near the spot where the emissary stood, and this person naturally began to tremble for his life.
As he ceased speaking, the gallant leader propped himself up in his rifle pit, placed his rifle and revolver before him, and calmly waited for the onrush of the followers of Roman Nose.
No sooner had he ceased speaking than, in almost a solid mass, the scouts retreated to the island, keeping up a vigorous fusillade upon the surrounding Indians.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ceased speaking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
