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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

Then she must forgive, unconditionally; for it would never do to intermit all praying until somebody else should come to a right, mind.

From A Letter of Credit by Warner, Susan

This is quite enough of time for taking care of the outer man, and any one careful of his health will be sure to intermit one or two of these seasons.

From Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland by Choules, J.O.

He was playing in a piece called The Black Doctor at the time, and did not intermit his representations on account of his misfortune.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 by Various

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

The frog chirped again from the trees, and the far-off owl hooted in the wood, resuming his melancholy song, that had been so briefly intermitted.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton

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

From The Indian Drum by Balmer, Edwin

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 Mudge, Zachariah Atwell

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 Nassau, Robert Hamill

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 Bell, Henry Glassford

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 disorderly troubles of the land," says his son of him, "being then far advanced, though otherways he disliked them, were a kind of refreshment to him, and intermitting relaxation from a more stinging disquietnesse.

From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by Willcock, John

Some little scalding of urine; flow not so free and full, intermitting slightly, as if I had some calculus in the bladder which interfered with continuous flow.

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

It has been observed in intermitting fevers, that paroxysms of the quotidian recur in the morning, the tertian at noon, and the quartan in the afternoon; in no instance do they take place at night.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

At that period the pump windlass had not superseded the intermitting efforts of the old handspike.

From Toilers of the Sea by Hugo, Victor