intermitted
Example Sentences
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His breath, which had kept pace with the quick beating of his heart, intermitted, hesitated, was lost!
From Gabriel Conroy by Harte, Bert
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
His successors, the Baron D'Avaugour and M. de Mézy, however, soon took up the intermitted quarrel on behalf of the State, until the new order of government in 1663.
From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Bryan, Claude Glennon
The men, under the lead of the chaplain, built a large and commodious house of logs, in which religious services—never intermitted, when possible to be held—and literary exercises were held.
From Historical sketch of the Fifteenth Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers First Brigade, First Division, Sixth Corps by Anonymous
The rain, which had never intermitted, fell with dismal hopelessness.
From Checkers A Hard-luck Story by Blossom, Henry M.
