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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

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

He was still a very young man, when, under the impelling guidance of his conscience, he felt himself called to intermit, as Schwenckfeld and others had done, the practice of the sacraments of the Church.

From Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Rufus Matthew Jones

There was no answer and no intermit to the sobs and tears she was pouring on my letter.

From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Cyrus Townsend Brady

Then she must forgive, unconditionally; for it would never do to intermit all praying until somebody else should come to a right, mind.

From A Letter of Credit by Susan Warner

His days of "literary loafing" allowed him to enjoy the pleasures of friendship which during his periods of work were necessarily, to some extent, intermitted.

From William Hickling Prescott by Harry Thurston Peck

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 doctors say in their account that it was while they intermitted the holding of our feet.

From The Death-Blow to Spiritualism Being the True Story of the Fox Sisters by Reuben Briggs Davenport

The frog chirped again from the trees, and the far-off owl hooted in the wood, resuming his melancholy song, that had been so briefly intermitted.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy

For a long time these walks had been intermitted, and he had almost forgotten the irritation of the past in this respect.

From A Country Gentleman and his Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

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

Intermit′tent, intermitting or ceasing at intervals, as a fever.—adv.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

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

I have often known Peasants, who had laboured for several Months under intermitting Fevers; having made Use of many bad Medicines and Mixtures for them, and observed no Manner of Regimen.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

One Symptom, which most particularly characterises these several Species of intermitting Fevers, is the Quality of the Urines which the Sick pass after the Fit.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot