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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

He was still a very young man, when, under the impelling guidance of his conscience, he felt himself called to intermit, as Schwenckfeld and others had done, the practice of the sacraments of the Church.

From Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Rufus Matthew Jones

And having risen, he did not intermit his industry for a moment.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane

I did not intermit my labor, urged as I was by a mysterious instinct downward.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various

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

The clapping of his hands was intermitted by a violent clapping of the chest on which he sat, first on the top, then on the sides and end.

From North-Pole Voyages by Zachariah Atwell Mudge

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

For nearly an hour, the quarrel continued with intermitted truces of silence.

From The Indian Drum by Edwin Balmer

For a long time these walks had been intermitted, and he had almost forgotten the irritation of the past in this respect.

From A Country Gentleman and his Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

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

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

The water is black and heavy, and subject to intermitting storms.

From Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo

Now all was hush, and you might have supposed he had fallen asleep, for in that hush you heard what seemed an intermitting snore.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson

To this Noircarmes assented, but without intermitting his fire for a moment.

From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott

I have often known Peasants, who had laboured for several Months under intermitting Fevers; having made Use of many bad Medicines and Mixtures for them, and observed no Manner of Regimen.

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