intermitted
Example Sentences
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The heart-sounds were so weak that the presence or absence of bruit could not be safely predicated; meantime, the pulsations intermitted in a most alarming manner.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie
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
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
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
The frog chirped again from the trees, and the far-off owl hooted in the wood, resuming his melancholy song, that had been so briefly intermitted.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy
