intermitted
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For the same reason the wailing is again intermitted while the grave is being dug.
From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Robert Hamill Nassau
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
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
Before morning broke, however, it was clear that the march must be intermitted.
From Barclay of the Guides by Herbert Strang
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
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