intermitted
Example Sentences
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To the Honourable Knight Sir G. P. SIR, I Would have intermitted this week without writing, if I had not found the name of my Lady Huntington in your Letter.
From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by John Donne
Moreover, the contact of her head with mine made me suffer so much that I am absolutely sure it was not intermitted for a single moment.
From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion
The song was occasionally intermitted to give room to certain self-communings which the pastime suggested.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy
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
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
