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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

Run to your houses, fall upon your knees, Pray to the gods to intermit the plague55 That needs must light on this ingratitude.

From The Ontario High School Reader by Marty, A.E.

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

Hitherto it had been her aunt's scheme of life to intermit in some slight degree the acerbity of her usual demeanour in periods of illness.

From Linda Tressel by Trollope, Anthony

The last three or four years since Mr. Harmer's declared intentions relative to Sophy and yourselves, they have very much intermitted their visits, and only returned on the news of their brother's first paralytic seizure.

From A Search For A Secret (Vol 2 of 3) A Novel by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

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 Sloane, William Milligan

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 Jones, P.

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 Peck, Harry Thurston

His only systematic reading was a persistent, though frequently intermitted, exploration of religious biographies and the literature of religious conversion, in preparation for the Gifford Lectures.

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by James, William

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

But it happens, sometimes that a distinctly intermitting neuralgia occurs as an early symptom of phthisis; in fact, where there is a predisposition to neurotic affections, I believe that this is not very uncommon.

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.

I waited long months, watch in hand, for the latter to show some sign of intermitting these amiabilities to such an enemy—the very smallest would have sufficed for me to throw myself back upon it.

From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by James, Henry

The following day I was better: the doctors found my pulse regular, and without any intermitting symptom.

From Adventures in the Philippine Islands by La Gironière, Paul P. de

When the pulses are slow, regular, and nearly natural they usually become frequent, small, irregular, sometimes intermitting.

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