intermit

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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

Though often in feeble health, he seldom allowed physical languor to intermit his work.

From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher)

He was playing in a piece called The Black Doctor at the time, and did not intermit his representations on account of his misfortune.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 by Various

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)

May will lay her parting injunctions on Dora to plague herself perpetually with the monster, and these will be like dying words to Dora, she will sooner die herself than intermit a single harassing attention.

From A Houseful of Girls by Tytler, Sarah