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
And having risen, he did not intermit his industry for a moment.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan
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 Gosse, Edmund
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
General Scott, nevertheless, though equally anxious to terminate the conflict, did not for a moment intermit his military vigilance.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
