intermitted
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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
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 P. Jones
His successors, the Baron D'Avaugour and M. de Mézy, however, soon took up the intermitted quarrel on behalf of the State, until the new order of government in 1663.
From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Claude Glennon Bryan
The rain, which had never intermitted, fell with dismal hopelessness.
From Checkers A Hard-luck Story by Henry M. Blossom
The heart-sounds were so weak that the presence or absence of bruit could not be safely predicated; meantime, the pulsations intermitted in a most alarming manner.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie
