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

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 Optic, Oliver

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 Jones, Rufus Matthew

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

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 Abbott, Jacob