"Desist" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... after being compelled to desist by the candle gradually failing, while it had gone right out in the socket before ...
— The Lost Middy - Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap • George Manville Fenn
... the spiritual malaise's is resolved. This case has to find enough courage to become honest with themselves, to admit their deeds in all their disgusting detail and then to make amends, or if amends are not possible, to at least cease and desist. They have to take personal responsibly for what they really are being and what they have really done and most importantly, accept that they are responsible for creating their own illness. It is not a virus, a cancer cell or something that just fell out of the universe and struck them, innocent ...
— How and When to Be Your Own Doctor • Dr. Isabelle A. Moser with Steve Solomon
... will steadily observe the maxims by which they have hitherto been governed. They will respect the sacred rights of embassy; and with a sincere disposition on the part of France to desist from hostility, to make reparation for the injuries heretofore inflicted on our commerce, and to do justice in future, there will be no obstacle to the restoration of ...
— State of the Union Addresses of John Adams • John Adams
... on July 29, Germany threatened to mobilize if Russia did not desist from military preparations. This threat was viewed by M. Sazonof as an additional reason for taking all precautions; 'since we cannot accede to Germany's desire, the only course open to us is to accelerate ...
— Why We Are At War (2nd Edition, revised) • Members of the Oxford Faculty of Modern History
... that a company of eighteen men and women amused themselves by dancing and singing in the churchyard of St. Magnus, in the diocese of Magdeburg, to the annoyance of a priest who was saying mass in the church. He ordered them to desist; but they danced on in reckless mirth. The holy father then invoked God and St. Magnus to keep them dancing for a whole year; and not in vain. For twelve months they danced in spite of themselves. Neither dew nor rain fell upon them; and their shoes and their ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, Issue 17, March, 1859 • Various
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