intermitted
Example Sentences
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It consequently, though somewhat invigorated at first, intermitted more and more toward the close, working, when it did work, awkwardly and with friction, until the physical collapse came, and the end was reached.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane
But nature had given him a slimness and an actual grace he found, in his private self-scrutiny, almost girlish, nor could he wholly outwit and supplement her by the athletic training he never intermitted.
From Old Crow by Alice Brown
For nearly an hour, the quarrel continued with intermitted truces of silence.
From The Indian Drum by Edwin Balmer
The fierce equinoctial blasts which that year had lasted for more than a month, were followed by a fortnight of fitful, heavy rain, intermitted by sudden gales and stormy showers.
From The Pobratim A Slav Novel by P. Jones
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
