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

May will lay her parting injunctions on Dora to plague herself perpetually with the monster, and these will be like dying words to Dora, she will sooner die herself than intermit a single harassing attention.

From A Houseful of Girls by Tytler, Sarah

Though often in feeble health, he seldom allowed physical languor to intermit his work.

From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher)

They came, to the number of thirty or forty; but not for their presence did the invisible revellers intermit their nocturnal visit.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 by Various

The worthy bishop, who was certainly at any time more at home in the cabinet than in the church, did not intermit his toil or yield to discouragement.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Baird, Henry Martyn