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

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

Never will I intermit my enmity to our invaders; never will I live for any other object than the liberties of our people.

From The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance by Harriet Martineau

I have repeatedly observed, that as soon as the honey harvest fails, the bees intermit their labors in building new comb, even when large portions of their hive are unfilled.

From Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual by L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine) Langstroth

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 William Milligan Sloane

For the same reason the wailing is again intermitted while the grave is being dug.

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Robert Hamill Nassau

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

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 Stitch must be intermitted, being made with two crooked Needles threaded at each end with the same Thread.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Charles Gabriel Le Clerc

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

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

But it happens, sometimes that a distinctly intermitting neuralgia occurs as an early symptom of phthisis; in fact, where there is a predisposition to neurotic affections, I believe that this is not very uncommon.

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie

The same Cause which produces these intermitting Fevers, frequently also occasions Disorders, which return periodically at the same Hour, without Shivering, without Heat, and often without any Quickness of the Pulse.

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

I was not glad to feel the intermitting tenor supplant that soprano.

From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Elizabeth Sheppard

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