Again he desisted from the egg, studying them with sharp eyes as if to fathom their financial status. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The eager Confederates drove them with horrid carnage a mile across the plain, and only desisted from the pursuit when they came under the fire of the Federal batteries across the river. ❋ Unknown (1863)
It appears that it was not until several shots had actually struck her that the Star of the West desisted from the attempt to convey reinforcements to Fort Sumter. ❋ Unknown (1861)
Constantine, as the barbarians of the Euxine, who in the preceding age had poured their armaments into the heart of the Mediterranean, soon desisted from the exercise of piracy, and despaired of forcing this insurmountable barrier. ❋ Unknown (1206)
The West, from Rome to Britain, was called into action; the kings of Poland and Bohemia obeyed the summons of Conrad; and it is affirmed by the Greeks and Latins, that, in the passage of a strait or river, the Byzantine agents, after a tale of nine hundred thousand, desisted from the endless and formidable computation. ❋ Unknown (1206)
Alaric had faithfully asserted the just pretensions of the republic to the provinces which were usurped by the Greeks of Constantinople: he modestly required the fair and stipulated recompense of his services; and if he had desisted from the prosecution of his enterprise, he had obeyed, in his retreat, the peremptory, though private, letters of the emperor himself. ❋ Unknown (1206)
Mr. Griffith Donne's principal trial was the existence of an elderly maiden aunt, who did not approve of him, and was in the habit of expressing her disapproval in lengthy epistolary correspondence, invariably tending to severe denunciation of his mode of life, and also invariably terminating with the announcement that unless he "desisted" (from what, or in what manner, not specified) she should consider it her bounden duty to disinherit him forthwith. ❋ Frances Hodgson Burnett (1886)
For some time she endeavoured to outbrave me; neither the fiddler nor she desisted; but at last she gave over, and the musician laid aside his instrument. . . ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)
The U.S. has desisted in selling weapons to Georgia, 20% of whose territory Russia continues to occupy three years after a war that left tens of thousands displaced. ❋ James Kirchick (2011)
The carrying away of the crojack and the blowing away of the mizzen-lower-topsail gave me freedom to see and aim, and when the tiny messengers from my rifle began to spat through the canvas and to spat against the steel of the yard, the men strung along it desisted from passing the gaskets. ❋ Unknown (2010)
And he heard her singing in the patio garden, where, also, she desisted long enough to quarrel with her ❋ Unknown (2010)
The RBI desisted from announcing any new buyback program after its monetary policy review Tuesday. ❋ Khushita Vasant (2011)
Or if it desisted from all rhetoric suggesting that it can solve its budget woes by further cutting Pentagon spending. ❋ Bret Stephens (2011)
The very custom was dying out, and some children already had desisted from piecing between meals. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The U.S. would be credible if it desisted from pouring more diplomatic wine into the punctured jar that is the Israeli-Palestinian "peace process." ❋ Bret Stephens (2011)
And at the second net we were greeted by rifle shots till we desisted and went on to the third, where the manoeuvre was again repeated. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I think the case you linked to qualifies as rape, even if voluntarily desisted in [so to speak]. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Bob got a [cease and desist] order from [Mac Donald's] after they discovered he was calling his [restaurant's] burgers "Big Maks" ❋ Steeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeve (2013)
[Ameya]: Dude, Balakrishna is so desist. He pretends to love [Carrie Underwood], claims that he hates cricket and is going to change his name from Balakrishna Chinnaswamy [to Bob] Green. ❋ JagguDada (2010)
[Prasoon] is such a fucking desist, listenig to [heavy metal] trash and [dreaming] of marrying an american hottie. ❋ Mudit (2004)
letters sent to [suprnova.org] and many other [bit torrent] sites [hosting] torrents of copyrighted material. ❋ Bigposerhead (2005)
[cease] and [desist] cease & desist [back off] stop cease desist legal ❋ Xthomasbhx (2015)
Hym "I mean, you'd think I would have gotten a [cease and desist] or something, right? I mean, can you imagine a guy DOING THIS and the just... nothing? NOTHING happens!? Why is that the case!? Really! I mean, the quality of television and movies radically improved but that's like THE OPPOSITE of what you'd think would happen, isn't it? How am I the only one baffled here? Imagine explain this to someone. What is the first question they would ask? You go into detail about everything I've done and what do you think they would ask? 'Well, what happened?' NOTHING! NOTHING HAPPENED. Well, nothing that wasn't ALREADY HAPPENING. And then they would give you some confused look and you'd be all 'Yeah, crazy right?' I do see how [this is a thing] that is happening and the fact that the people around me are in no way [amenable] to reason is something that should be disconcerting to everyone.: ❋ Hym Iam (2023)
Disney, Nintendo, and other companies do a Siege and Desist to [summon] [warriors] to kill [pirates] and take their "booty". ❋ Lolmaster444 (2018)
