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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

Again and again did Dr. Browne, brigade surgeon, who concerned himself for her like a brother, advise her to consider her weakness, and intermit her exhausting duties.

From Mary S. Peake The Colored Teacher at Fortress Monroe by Lewis C. (Lewis Conger) Lockwood

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 Henry James

He could intermit the action of a Parliament for a time, sending the members to their homes until he should summon them again.

From Charles I Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

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 John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

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

From Barclay of the Guides by Herbert Strang

For nearly an hour, the quarrel continued with intermitted truces of silence.

From The Indian Drum by Edwin Balmer

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

He desired to drink, but could not swallow, his pulse intermitted, his tongue swelled, his throat was excoriated, his breath difficult and interrupted.

From Beggars on Horseback by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse

Judging from the event, we may conclude that the morbid humours had begun to leave his nerves, and to concentrate for a fit—so long intermitted and so much needed—of his hereditary gout.

From Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Daniel Hack Tuke

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

Drawing and cutting pains from one iliac crest to the other as if a knife had traversed the abdomen; often intermitting and always returning. lower extremities.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz

Some little scalding of urine; flow not so free and full, intermitting slightly, as if I had some calculus in the bladder which interfered with continuous flow.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz

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

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