intermitted

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His days of "literary loafing" allowed him to enjoy the pleasures of friendship which during his periods of work were necessarily, to some extent, intermitted.

From William Hickling Prescott by Peck, Harry Thurston

It was a nightly ceremony which had not been intermitted since the two came to the Point.

From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Brady, Cyrus Townsend

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 Kennedy, John Pendleton

There, however, not only the intercourse with the idols, but the connection with Jehovah also, appears to be intermitted.

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm

She wrote to her Commissioners to resume the duties which they had intermitted, and to renew the conference once more.

From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) by Bell, Henry Glassford