Volunteering for perilous and onerous duties, for which hundreds had eagerly offered themselves in the early days, ere the glamour of the soldier's life had vanished, had ceased to be popular.
The letter of the Constitution, as Mr. Lincoln clearly saw, had ceased to be regarded, at least by the great bulk of the people, with superstitious reverence.
When, at the commencement of 1811, I left Paris I had ceased to delude myself respecting the brilliant career which seemed opening before me during the Consulate.
But Lucien was not a fair representative of the Bonapartists; indeed he had never really thought well of his brother or of his actions since Lucien, the former "Brutus" Bonaparte, had ceased to be the adviser of the Consul.
Attached to the different documents there appeared the signatures of several Senators whose names he recollected but with whom he had ceased to have any intercourse for a great number of years.
All my letters from the Minister recommended that I should keep a strict watch over the motions of Dumouriez; but his name was now as seldom mentioned as if he had ceased to exist.
He had ceased to be uncertain in his temper, by turns irritable and depressed.
All regard for the dignity of law, for family ties, for difference of position, had ceased.
He had, mentally, so frequently experienced ruin, that he had ceased to believe in its material probability.
He had ceased to be able to imagine life without this new interest, but that which is not imagined sometimes exists, as Forsytes are perpetually finding to their cost.
For many years he had ceased regretting, even vaguely, the son who had not been born; Fleur filled the bill in his heart.
He had no heart to press his words, beginning then to understand the paralyzing truth that there was no longer any resolving this or that; with love like his he had ceased to be a separate being with a separate will.
As she chatted I answered her perfunctorily, while all the time I was asking myself why I had ceased to desire her, whether the old longing for her might not return--was not even now returning?
When he had ceased speaking a murmur ran through the ranks.
Nancy, with her face averted, listened in silence--a silence that continued some time after I had ceased to speak.
He had ceased to see the ailing creatures around him, and in the blindness of his faith was soaring triumphantly.
He had ceased to believe in the efficacy of alms; it was not sufficient that one should be charitable, henceforth one must be just.
The love of the King for her continued until her death, although for many years before that he had ceased to see her in private.
At the outset, the King went to the "apartments" very often and played, but lately he had ceased to do so.
Mere shooting on the wing the King had long since quitted, and he had ceased to mount his horse; thus the chase simply resolved itself into a battue.
She would go on thinking that he had ceased to love her.
Notwithstanding our confidence that all resistance had ceased, we did not deem it wise actually to venture into the lion's den without having taken every precaution against a surprise.
This view having prevailed, we had ceased to take an interest in the satellites, further than to regard them as objects of great curiosity on account of their motions.
At that instant the rattling of the latch recommenced as suddenly as it had ceased, and the air of the room recovered its former tranquillity.
Since he had ceased speaking, the cold, death-like grasp of his hand had gradually strengthened, and he had begun to look slowly and inquiringly round him from side to side.
It had ceased to count, so that she only wrenched from him this one great boon.
He had ceased to row, but the boat still shot forward, impelled by the last powerful sweep of the oars, the water streaming past in a rush of foam.
He had ceased to think with actual pain of the woman who had loved his strength, but had shrunk in horror from his weakness.
He had ceased to rehearse the speech a doughtier Baird would now have been hearing.
No one now would ever suppose that he was a mere sightseer or chained to the Holden lot by circumstances over which he had ceased to exert the slightest control.
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