intermit

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Reason is fallible and virtue vincible; the winds vary and the needle forsakes the pole, but stupidity never errs and never intermits.

From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales by Bierce, Ambrose

But pain, like everything, intermits, and in those blessed intervals his mind was more active than ever, and ran a great deal upon what he called the Problem.

From Foul Play by Reade, Charles

His love fever, which is of a very low kind, and intermits annually, never comes on till the autumn.

From Phineas Finn The Irish Member by Trollope, Anthony

It never either loses sight of the object to be accomplished, or intermits its exertions while there is a possibility of success.

From How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success by Calhoon, Major A.R.

Unhear'd is whisker'd boatman's hail or joke; Who, mute as Sinbad's man of copper, rows, And only intermits the sturdy stroke When fearless gull too nigh his pinnace goes.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 400, November 21, 1829 by Various