SYN: Cessation, interruption, discontinuance, suspension, recurrence, pause, rest, stop, interval.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

“Oh, I’m in such trouble!” she cried; “I do so want a little help.”
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

I am old now, and cannot expect to live long, but there is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Omnes voces, auras, omnes susurros captat zelotypus, et amplificat apud se cum iniquissima de singulis calumnia.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

For these were pierced with many a ghastly wound, Some cold in death, some groaning on the ground; Some low in dust, (a mournful object) lay; High on the wall some breathed their souls away.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Sunt enim, qui in rebus contrariis parum sibi constent, voluptatem severissime contemnant, in dolore sint molliores, gloriam neglegant, frangantur infamia, atque ea quidem non satis constanter.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I was sorry for de chile, fer it was de Gawd’s trufe she spoke, so I comes back in heah, I did, en got some of dat strong coffee I dun saved for yo en me, en I het a cupful an brung it to her.
— from Old Times in Dixie Land: A Southern Matron's Memories by Caroline E. (Caroline Elizabeth) Merrick

Here the soothing sorcerer over anguish and horror—receives his visitors; and here, indeed, he sees company in due state.
— from Bentley's Miscellany, Volume I by Various

"In crossing the Atlantic In 1891," he says, "in delightful weather and perfect bodily health, and without a shade of anxiety on my mind so far as I was aware (in waking consciousness), I was suddenly aroused in the very early morning, say, three or four a. m., out of a perfectly sound, and, as I should call it, dreamless sleep, by the apparition of a telegram written on the usual paper, and presumably from home, in these words: 'Miss Dorothea died at ——,' all the rest being blurred and indistinct, but these words having a startling distinctness and a vivid sense of reality.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

"You will only hear part of it; but men are so curious, I dare say you will soon ferret out the rest.
— from It May Be True, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

You have never talked to servants, Charles, I dare say, for you have not one of their words.”
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 01 Moral Tales by Maria Edgeworth

The houses associated with Reynolds and Hogarth, in Leicester Square, Byron, in Holies Street, Benjamin Franklin and Peter the Great, in Craven Street, Campbell, in Duke Street, St. James's, Garrick, in the Adelphi Terrace, Michael Farraday, in Blandford Street, and Mrs. Siddons, in Baker Street, are but a few of the historic spots which are thus commemorated.
— from Shakespeare's England by William Winter