stop-work

By129 evening they had got this higher than their heads, and had to stop work from sheer exhaustion.

Then he would stop work and sit in the bunk house and read till the last page was turned.

At last a woman physician she saw told her she must stop work or she would die.

And sometimes he would stop work altogether and tell Lady Hermione about his home-life in Worcestershire.

The company was compelled to stop work, however, for lack of the necessary means to continue.