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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)

Then she must forgive, unconditionally; for it would never do to intermit all praying until somebody else should come to a right, mind.

From A Letter of Credit by Warner, Susan

It must not be supposed, however, that this private sorrow induced Mrs Twitter selfishly to forget the poor, or intermit her labours among them.

From Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

They came, to the number of thirty or forty; but not for their presence did the invisible revellers intermit their nocturnal visit.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 by Various

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 Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

Now his Toes, which had been black, grew red; the violet Spots in his Legs disappeared; the Swelling abated; the Pains became moderate, and intermitted.

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

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

The fierce equinoctial blasts which that year had lasted for more than a month, were followed by a fortnight of fitful, heavy rain, intermitted by sudden gales and stormy showers.

From The Pobratim A Slav Novel by Jones, P.

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

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

Mrs. B. Springs which do not constantly flow, are called intermitting, and are occasioned by the reservoir being imperfectly supplied.

From Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained by Jones, Thomas P.

“Indeed,” replied Johnny, without looking up, or intermitting his sneaking, restless walk from one corner of the room to the other.

From Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 by Various

The trees that stood in front of the house ever and anon yielded to the intermitting gusts of wind, and bowed their heads as though in submission to a superior power.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

I felt the intermitting pulse,—I watched the failing breath; yet so gradual and so complete was her decay, that I knew not the moment of her departure.

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary