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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

Again and again did Dr. Browne, brigade surgeon, who concerned himself for her like a brother, advise her to consider her weakness, and intermit her exhausting duties.

From Mary S. Peake The Colored Teacher at Fortress Monroe by Lockwood, Lewis C. (Lewis Conger)

I have repeatedly observed, that as soon as the honey harvest fails, the bees intermit their labors in building new comb, even when large portions of their hive are unfilled.

From Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual by Langstroth, L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine)

The solemn child, who proved, at closer view, to have an unusual beauty of pink cheeks, blue eyes, and reddish hair, did not intermit his serious gaze at his fingers.

From Old Crow by Brown, Alice

Never will I intermit my enmity to our invaders; never will I live for any other object than the liberties of our people.

From The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance by Martineau, Harriet

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

The rain, which had never intermitted, fell with dismal hopelessness.

From Checkers A Hard-luck Story by Blossom, Henry M.

But the stern resistance of the natives was not intermitted.

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 Mayer, Brantz

He desired to drink, but could not swallow, his pulse intermitted, his tongue swelled, his throat was excoriated, his breath difficult and interrupted.

From Beggars on Horseback by Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson)

While these dispositions were being made, the skirmishing and cannonade were never intermitted for an instant.

From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Coffin, Charles Carleton

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

The same Cause which produces these intermitting Fevers, frequently also occasions Disorders, which return periodically at the same Hour, without Shivering, without Heat, and often without any Quickness of the Pulse.

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

But whenever the intermitting Fever is simple and uncombined, it ever has, and ever will render the Patient all possible Service.

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

Drawing and cutting pains from one iliac crest to the other as if a knife had traversed the abdomen; often intermitting and always returning. lower extremities.

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

To this Noircarmes assented, but without intermitting his fire for a moment.

From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by Prescott, William Hickling