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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

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

General Scott, nevertheless, though equally anxious to terminate the conflict, did not for a moment intermit his military vigilance.

From Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California by Brantz Mayer

Only in the early morning, and for an hour, or an hour and a half after lunch, did Claude intermit his labors.

From The Way of Ambition by J. H. Gardner Soper

Though Franklin took every thing by the smooth handle, he did not, on that account, intermit any intensity of labor to accomplish his purposes.

From Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

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

But nature had given him a slimness and an actual grace he found, in his private self-scrutiny, almost girlish, nor could he wholly outwit and supplement her by the athletic training he never intermitted.

From Old Crow by Alice Brown

The last three or four years since Mr. Harmer's declared intentions relative to Sophy and yourselves, they have very much intermitted their visits, and only returned on the news of their brother's first paralytic seizure.

From A Search For A Secret (Vol 2 of 3) A Novel by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Breugne made me observe that his pulse intermitted.

From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Henry Digby Beste

Before morning broke, however, it was clear that the march must be intermitted.

From Barclay of the Guides by Herbert Strang

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

“Indeed,” replied Johnny, without looking up, or intermitting his sneaking, restless walk from one corner of the room to the other.

From Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 by Various

The intermitting of Three Hours should be most naturally read as suggesting that at least in the judgment of the managers its initial vogue had passed.

From Three Hours after Marriage by John Arbuthnot

When the pulses are slow, regular, and nearly natural they usually become frequent, small, irregular, sometimes intermitting.

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

There are several Kinds of intermitting Fevers, which take their different Names from the Interval or different Space of Time, in which the Fits return.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot