But in 1899 he took up drawing and his outbursts gradually ceased.
The others withdrew into their private world and gradually ceased to publish or exhibit.
In 1914, when the shells began to fall, the visits gradually ceased; soon came the names of the dead.
With the Hogarth Press's emergence as a major publishing house, the Woolfs gradually ceased being their own printers.
In the same way that global warming has gradually ceased to be merely a theory, so, too, its impacts are no longer just hypothetical.
His academic life never stopped him from his literary work, but his Polish poetry gradually ceased to appear with his decision to write fiction, in English.
The culture was changing, with the gin-soaked bawdiness of Georgian London inching toward Victorian prudishness, and "Harris's List" and its numerous imitators gradually ceased publication.
The embryo then was provided with nourishment from fluids in the oviduct; the yolk, which became redundant, gradually ceased to be provided, and the eggs became oligolecithal.
With the collapse of the feudal structure, farmers in general gradually ceased to be subjects of a master and became subjects of a state.
But like the bean and the cod, the old restaurant, hidden at the end of an alley just a block from the Common, gradually ceased to play a central role in the life of the city and commonwealth.
Within the frontiers the army was kept at full strength, mostly by local recruiting of legionaries and apparently of auxiliaries, too (so that Vespasian's system of having the latter serve far from their homelands gradually ceased).
