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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

This is quite enough of time for taking care of the outer man, and any one careful of his health will be sure to intermit one or two of these seasons.

From Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland by Choules, J.O.

Not for a moment did Lallemant and Villetard, the two French agents, intermit their revolutionary agitation in the town.

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

Napoleon continued, however, the frequency of his correspondence, and, notwithstanding the jealousy of Maria Louisa, did not at all intermit his visits.

From Josephine Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

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

It was a nightly ceremony which had not been intermitted since the two came to the Point.

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

While these dispositions were being made, the skirmishing and cannonade were never intermitted for an instant.

From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Coffin, Charles Carleton

She wrote to her Commissioners to resume the duties which they had intermitted, and to renew the conference once more.

From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) by Bell, Henry Glassford

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

From The Indian Drum by Balmer, Edwin

Indeed, the lava was now almost ceasing to flow, and the bombardment of pumice-stone and fiery cinders had intermitted a little.

From The White Man's Foot by Allen, Grant

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

These Countries are particularly subject to intermitting Fevers; of which I shall treat briefly hereafter.

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

The intermitting of Three Hours should be most naturally read as suggesting that at least in the judgment of the managers its initial vogue had passed.

From Three Hours after Marriage by Arbuthnot, John

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 Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

The interrupter is the arrangement for intermitting the primary current.

From Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by Fleming, John Ambrose