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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

The girls were full of curiosity, but they dared not intermit their work, for everything had its allotted time.

From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach

I am obliged to acknowledge my belief that Mrs. Loraine's messenger was exceedingly unreasonable, for he did not intermit his hammering long enough to ascertain whether any one was coming to the door or not.

From Seek and Find or The Adventures of a Smart Boy by Oliver Optic

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

Run to your houses, fall upon your knees, Pray to the gods to intermit the plague55 That needs must light on this ingratitude.

From The Ontario High School Reader by A.E. Marty

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

The frog chirped again from the trees, and the far-off owl hooted in the wood, resuming his melancholy song, that had been so briefly intermitted.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy

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 Claude Glennon Bryan

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

From Barclay of the Guides by Herbert Strang

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

The pulse.—Observe if it is slow or rapid, full, weak and thin, if irregular or intermitting.

From How to Care for the Insane A Manual for Nurses by William D. Granger

A certain Person, who purposely sunned himself for a considerable Time, in the clear Day of an intermitting tertian Fever, underwent the Assault of an Apoplexy, which carried him off the following Day.

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

To this Noircarmes assented, but without intermitting his fire for a moment.

From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott

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