intermitted
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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
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
The rain, which had never intermitted, fell with dismal hopelessness.
From Checkers A Hard-luck Story by Henry M. Blossom
The habits of study are not easily retained during the long stretches of watch-keeping intermitted with hilarious trips ashore.
From An Ocean Tramp by William McFee
While these dispositions were being made, the skirmishing and cannonade were never intermitted for an instant.
From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Charles Carleton Coffin
