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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

Never will I intermit my enmity to our invaders; never will I live for any other object than the liberties of our people.

From The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance by Martineau, Harriet

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

Though Franklin took every thing by the smooth handle, he did not, on that account, intermit any intensity of labor to accomplish his purposes.

From Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

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 Brown, Alice

The rain, which had never intermitted, fell with dismal hopelessness.

From Checkers A Hard-luck Story by Blossom, Henry M.

The habits of study are not easily retained during the long stretches of watch-keeping intermitted with hilarious trips ashore.

From An Ocean Tramp by McFee, William

There, however, not only the intercourse with the idols, but the connection with Jehovah also, appears to be intermitted.

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm

His successors, the Baron D'Avaugour and M. de Mézy, however, soon took up the intermitted quarrel on behalf of the State, until the new order of government in 1663.

From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Bryan, Claude Glennon

Breugne made me observe that his pulse intermitted.

From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Beste, Henry Digby

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

It defeats the steady habit of exertion, but it creates spasms of irregular exertion; it ruins the natural power of life, but it developes preternatural paroxysms of intermitting power.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various

“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

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 Wilson, John Lyde

Intermit′tent, intermitting or ceasing at intervals, as a fever.—adv.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various