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With the cold war's intermit tent crises no longer seeming so momentous, one eye of U.S. foreign policy has shifted to the long view.

From Time Magazine Archive

The worthy bishop, who was certainly at any time more at home in the cabinet than in the church, did not intermit his toil or yield to discouragement.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Henry Martyn Baird

He could intermit the action of a Parliament for a time, sending the members to their homes until he should summon them again.

From Charles I Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

He was playing in a piece called The Black Doctor at the time, and did not intermit his representations on account of his misfortune.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 by Various

Hence some fevers perfectly intermit, the stomach recovering its complete action after the torpor and consequent orgasm, which constitute the paroxysm of fever, are terminated.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin

One, two, three—the hearers counted the drum beats, time and again, in their intermitted booming, to twenty-four.

From The Indian Drum by Edwin Balmer

The song was occasionally intermitted to give room to certain self-communings which the pastime suggested.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy

Moreover, the contact of her head with mine made me suffer so much that I am absolutely sure it was not intermitted for a single moment.

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion

The fierce equinoctial blasts which that year had lasted for more than a month, were followed by a fortnight of fitful, heavy rain, intermitted by sudden gales and stormy showers.

From The Pobratim A Slav Novel by P. Jones

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

Mrs Ndisang said "no reason was given" as to why intermission was refused "but it was very clear intermitting was not an option".

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2023

Now all was hush, and you might have supposed he had fallen asleep, for in that hush you heard what seemed an intermitting snore.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson

Some little scalding of urine; flow not so free and full, intermitting slightly, as if I had some calculus in the bladder which interfered with continuous flow.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz

He was not ill above four or five days; an old hurt in his leg, which has been some time healed up, broke out again, and put him into an intermitting fever.

From Rupert Prince Palatine by Eva Scott

At that period the pump windlass had not superseded the intermitting efforts of the old handspike.

From Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo