intermitted
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The Stitch must be intermitted, being made with two crooked Needles threaded at each end with the same Thread.
From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Charles Gabriel Le Clerc
Now his Toes, which had been black, grew red; the violet Spots in his Legs disappeared; the Swelling abated; the Pains became moderate, and intermitted.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot
For nearly an hour, the quarrel continued with intermitted truces of silence.
From The Indian Drum by Edwin Balmer
The clapping of his hands was intermitted by a violent clapping of the chest on which he sat, first on the top, then on the sides and end.
From North-Pole Voyages by Zachariah Atwell Mudge
Judging from the event, we may conclude that the morbid humours had begun to leave his nerves, and to concentrate for a fit—so long intermitted and so much needed—of his hereditary gout.
From Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Daniel Hack Tuke
