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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

Not for a moment did Lallemant and Villetard, the two French agents, intermit their revolutionary agitation in the town.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane

And having risen, he did not intermit his industry for a moment.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane

I did not intermit my labor, urged as I was by a mysterious instinct downward.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various

The bell doth toll for him that thinks it doth; and though it intermit again, yet from that minute that that occasion wrought upon him, he is united to God.

From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by John Donne

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

From The Indian Drum by Edwin Balmer

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 Zachariah Atwell Mudge

Before morning broke, however, it was clear that the march must be intermitted.

From Barclay of the Guides by Herbert Strang

Now his Toes, which had been black, grew red; the violet Spots in his Legs disappeared; the Swelling abated; the Pains became moderate, and intermitted.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

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

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

Intermit′tent, intermitting or ceasing at intervals, as a fever.—adv.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

"There is no dew on the dry grass to-night, Nor damp within the shadow of the trees; The wind is intermitting, dry and light."

From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)

One Symptom, which most particularly characterises these several Species of intermitting Fevers, is the Quality of the Urines which the Sick pass after the Fit.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

The intermitting of Three Hours should be most naturally read as suggesting that at least in the judgment of the managers its initial vogue had passed.

From Three Hours after Marriage by John Arbuthnot