intermitted
Example Sentences
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During the days of kwedi the men go in the mornings to fish; while they are away at the work, the weeping is intermitted lest in some way it spoil the fishing.
From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Robert Hamill Nassau
For a long time these walks had been intermitted, and he had almost forgotten the irritation of the past in this respect.
From A Country Gentleman and his Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
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
The men, under the lead of the chaplain, built a large and commodious house of logs, in which religious services—never intermitted, when possible to be held—and literary exercises were held.
From Historical sketch of the Fifteenth Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers First Brigade, First Division, Sixth Corps by Anonymous
One, two, three—the hearers counted the drum beats, time and again, in their intermitted booming, to twenty-four.
From The Indian Drum by Edwin Balmer
