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
I haue begd to maintaine me the better part of the waye, onely because I would intermit no time from my pursute in going backe for monie.
From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Gosse, Edmund
Hitherto it had been her aunt's scheme of life to intermit in some slight degree the acerbity of her usual demeanour in periods of illness.
From Linda Tressel by Trollope, Anthony
He himself would never intermit his work for a single day.
From A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen by Ritchie, Anne Thackeray
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)
But the stern resistance of the natives was not intermitted.
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)
The last three or four years since Mr. Harmer's declared intentions relative to Sophy and yourselves, they have very much intermitted their visits, and only returned on the news of their brother's first paralytic seizure.
From A Search For A Secret (Vol 2 of 3) A Novel by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
The Stitch must be intermitted, being made with two crooked Needles threaded at each end with the same Thread.
From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel
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 Donne, John
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
Some little scalding of urine; flow not so free and full, intermitting slightly, as if I had some calculus in the bladder which interfered with continuous flow.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock
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)
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
The following day I was better: the doctors found my pulse regular, and without any intermitting symptom.
From Adventures in the Philippine Islands by La Gironière, Paul P. de
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