intermit

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 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

It must not be supposed, however, that this private sorrow induced Mrs Twitter selfishly to forget the poor, or intermit her labours among them.

From Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

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

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

His only systematic reading was a persistent, though frequently intermitted, exploration of religious biographies and the literature of religious conversion, in preparation for the Gifford Lectures.

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by William James

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 men, under the lead of the chaplain, built a large and commodious house of logs, in which religious services—never intermitted, when possible to be held—and literary exercises were held.

From Historical sketch of the Fifteenth Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers First Brigade, First Division, Sixth Corps by Anonymous

It consequently, though somewhat invigorated at first, intermitted more and more toward the close, working, when it did work, awkwardly and with friction, until the physical collapse came, and the end was reached.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane

One, two, three—the hearers counted the drum beats, time and again, in their intermitted booming, to twenty-four.

From The Indian Drum by Edwin Balmer

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

He was cold—a chilling sweat stood upon his face, his respiration was short and interrupted, his pulse weak and intermitting.

From Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact by Amelia Stratton Comfield

The following day I was better: the doctors found my pulse regular, and without any intermitting symptom.

From Adventures in the Philippine Islands by Paul P. de La Gironière

I felt the intermitting pulse,—I watched the failing breath; yet so gradual and so complete was her decay, that I knew not the moment of her departure.

From Discipline by Mary Brunton

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