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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

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 L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine) Langstroth

The worthy bishop, who was certainly at any time more at home in the cabinet than in the church, did not intermit his toil or yield to discouragement.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Henry Martyn Baird

Let Euclid rest, and Archimedes pause: intermit for a day your severe mathematical studies.

From Minor Poems by Milton by John Milton

Meanwhile, the Franks did not for a moment intermit their march towards Assur, and the Saracens, who sought in vain to shake their steady ranks, called them 'a nation of iron.'

From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 by Various

To the Honourable Knight Sir G. P. SIR, I Would have intermitted this week without writing, if I had not found the name of my Lady Huntington in your Letter.

From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by John Donne

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 S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

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

His only systematic reading was a persistent, though frequently intermitted, exploration of religious biographies and the literature of religious conversion, in preparation for the Gifford Lectures.

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by William James

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 Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

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

These Countries are particularly subject to intermitting Fevers; of which I shall treat briefly hereafter.

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

When the pulses are slow, regular, and nearly natural they usually become frequent, small, irregular, sometimes intermitting.

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

There are several Kinds of intermitting Fevers, which take their different Names from the Interval or different Space of Time, in which the Fits return.

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

The following day I was better: the doctors found my pulse regular, and without any intermitting symptom.

From Adventures in the Philippine Islands by Paul P. de La Gironière