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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

Not for a moment did Lallemant and Villetard, the two French agents, intermit their revolutionary agitation in the town.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane

This is quite enough of time for taking care of the outer man, and any one careful of his health will be sure to intermit one or two of these seasons.

From Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland by J.O. Choules

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 Alice Brown

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

For the same reason the wailing is again intermitted while the grave is being dug.

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Robert Hamill Nassau

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 G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Before morning broke, however, it was clear that the march must be intermitted.

From Barclay of the Guides by Herbert Strang

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 P. Jones

It was a nightly ceremony which had not been intermitted since the two came to the Point.

From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Cyrus Townsend Brady

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 water is black and heavy, and subject to intermitting storms.

From Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo

But it happens, sometimes that a distinctly intermitting neuralgia occurs as an early symptom of phthisis; in fact, where there is a predisposition to neurotic affections, I believe that this is not very uncommon.

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie

Now all was hush, and you might have supposed he had fallen asleep, for in that hush you heard what seemed an intermitting snore.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson

"There is no dew on the dry grass to-night, Nor damp within the shadow of the trees; The wind is intermitting, dry and light."

From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)