desist

He would neither desist from his attacks on the food nor from his noisy babbling to himself.

The Grasshopper refused to desist, and chirped louder and louder the more the Owl entreated.

Then another voice, telling some "Heaven-forsaken idiot" to desist.)

"Lise, I beg you to desist," said Prince Andrew still more emphatically.

I wish, Mr Square, you would desist from filling the minds of my pupils with such antichristian stuff; for the consequence must be, while they are under my care, its being well scourged out of them again.

When Tarzan screamed at him to desist, the young ape released the rope a little and then drew it tight again.

But after all I could not desist from telling her that night, for, as afterwards at her lodging we sat over the fire, talking as if we had known each other all our lives, there seemed no reason for an arbitrary delay.

de Chagny: you have no right to control them, and I will beg you to desist henceforth.

In the midst of her frenzied rejoicing at the death of the man, and Smith-Oldwick could attribute her actions to no other cause, she suddenly desisted from her futile attacks upon the insensate flesh and, leaping to her feet, ran quickly to the door, where she shot a wooden bolt into its socket, thus securing them from interference from without.

This plan was promptly put into execution; the sleds were constructed, the heavy baggage was drawn backward and forward until the road was beaten, when they desisted from their fatiguing labor.

When we had surmounted the acclivity, I was about to withdraw my arm from his, but by a slight tightening of the elbow was tacitly informed that such was not his will, and accordingly desisted. Discoursing on different subjects, we entered the town, and passed through several streets.

He desisted from his cataloguing at this point, for, with a loud exclamation, Bill had dashed away.