During the post-war period women ceased to quit employment on marriage.
A woman divorced for adultery ceased to exist even to her friends, let alone to the rest of society.
After the disease had struck, women ceased, for the first time in history, to be an exploited class.
Two women standing by the vegetable bin ceased their chatter.
Finally the woman ceased her prowling and came back to stand before the desk.
From the moment he met Lucy, other women had ceased to exist.
Soon the woman across whom she lay ceased breathing.
When she uses it, a woman should cease to kiss her lover and simply hold the lock.
Throughout the next thirty seconds the woman never ceased talking.
But they had not taught him anything of how a man and a woman ceased to be strangers.