intermit
Example Sentences
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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
May will lay her parting injunctions on Dora to plague herself perpetually with the monster, and these will be like dying words to Dora, she will sooner die herself than intermit a single harassing attention.
From A Houseful of Girls by Tytler, Sarah
Napoleon continued, however, the frequency of his correspondence, and, notwithstanding the jealousy of Maria Louisa, did not at all intermit his visits.
From Josephine Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
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)
