intermitted
Example Sentences
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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 Henry Glassford Bell
Before morning broke, however, it was clear that the march must be intermitted.
From Barclay of the Guides by Herbert Strang
For a long time these walks had been intermitted, and he had almost forgotten the irritation of the past in this respect.
From A Country Gentleman and his Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
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
