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I should have desisted, I should not have seen what I saw.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

Of Florence Burton she had as yet heard nothing, though had she heard of her, it may well be that she would not on that account have desisted.

From The Claverings by Trollope, Anthony

And if Amadour had had more love and less fear he would not have desisted from his attempt for so little.

From The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. II. (of V.) by Saintsbury, George

In a very little while he would have desisted from what he knew to be a vain undertaking.

From The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories by Bull, Charles Livingston

They wrote to the Duke such strong remonstrances that he appears to have desisted from the design, for they heard no more of it.

From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I by Reeve, Henry