Crossword-Solution: SURCEASED 9 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Heart, did we not think that she Had surceased her tyranny? Heart, we bounded, and were free! O sacrilegious freedom!—Till She came, and taught my apostate will The winnowed sweet mirth cannot guess And tear-fined peace of hopefulness; Looked, spake, simply touched, and went.

The morris-dancers stood still--the hobby-horse surceased his capering--pipe and tabor were mute, and “silence, like a heavy cloud,” seemed to descend on the once noisy rabble.

Say, Hector, Priam’s son! why sittest here Feeble and spiritless, and from thy host Apart? what new disaster hath befall’n?305 To whom with difficulty thus replied The warlike Chief.—But tell me who art Thou, Divine inquirer! best of powers above! Know’st not that dauntless Ajax me his friends Slaughtering at yonder ships, hath with a stone310 Surceased from fight, smiting me on the breast? I thought to have beheld, this day, the dead In Ades, every breath so seem’d my last.

But what if he left the wrong one, and got clear off with the valuable booty of two dozen pounds of honey? Confusion! that'll never do: he must take them all, or none; all, all's the word; and forthwith, as tenderly as possible, the puzzled thief took down eleven pots of honey to his one of gold--all pig-bladdered, all Fortnumed--all slimy at the string; "Confound that cunning old aunt of mine," said Simon, aloud; and took no notice that the snores surceased.

Forthwith the wind surceased, the ocean became silent, the tempest is appeased, and a great calm is made.