intermitted

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

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

She wrote to her Commissioners to resume the duties which they had intermitted, and to renew the conference once more.

From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) by Henry Glassford Bell

But the stern resistance of the natives was not intermitted.

From Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California by Brantz Mayer