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

Hence some fevers perfectly intermit, the stomach recovering its complete action after the torpor and consequent orgasm, which constitute the paroxysm of fever, are terminated.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

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

Though often in feeble health, he seldom allowed physical languor to intermit his work.

From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher)

I set, as it were, the small tick of my own poor watch by it—which private register would thump or intermit in agreement with these indications.

From Notes of a Son and Brother by James, Henry