intermitted
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But nature had given him a slimness and an actual grace he found, in his private self-scrutiny, almost girlish, nor could he wholly outwit and supplement her by the athletic training he never intermitted.
From Old Crow by Alice Brown
The last three or four years since Mr. Harmer's declared intentions relative to Sophy and yourselves, they have very much intermitted their visits, and only returned on the news of their brother's first paralytic seizure.
From A Search For A Secret (Vol 2 of 3) A Novel by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
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
Judging from the event, we may conclude that the morbid humours had begun to leave his nerves, and to concentrate for a fit—so long intermitted and so much needed—of his hereditary gout.
From Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Daniel Hack Tuke
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
