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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

The bell doth toll for him that thinks it doth; and though it intermit again, yet from that minute that that occasion wrought upon him, he is united to God.

From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by John Donne

I am obliged to acknowledge my belief that Mrs. Loraine's messenger was exceedingly unreasonable, for he did not intermit his hammering long enough to ascertain whether any one was coming to the door or not.

From Seek and Find or The Adventures of a Smart Boy by Oliver Optic

The solemn child, who proved, at closer view, to have an unusual beauty of pink cheeks, blue eyes, and reddish hair, did not intermit his serious gaze at his fingers.

From Old Crow by Alice Brown

I haue begd to maintaine me the better part of the waye, onely because I would intermit no time from my pursute in going backe for monie.

From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Edmund Gosse

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 Cyrus Townsend Brady

His days of "literary loafing" allowed him to enjoy the pleasures of friendship which during his periods of work were necessarily, to some extent, intermitted.

From William Hickling Prescott by Harry Thurston Peck

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

Breugne made me observe that his pulse intermitted.

From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Henry Digby Beste

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

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

Good-sense will allow of some intermitting Fevers, but then the Fit must be short.

From A Character of King Charles the Second by George Savile, Marquis of Halifax

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

Drawing and cutting pains from one iliac crest to the other as if a knife had traversed the abdomen; often intermitting and always returning. lower extremities.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz

But whenever the intermitting Fever is simple and uncombined, it ever has, and ever will render the Patient all possible Service.

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