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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

This is quite enough of time for taking care of the outer man, and any one careful of his health will be sure to intermit one or two of these seasons.

From Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland by Choules, J.O.

Napoleon continued, however, the frequency of his correspondence, and, notwithstanding the jealousy of Maria Louisa, did not at all intermit his visits.

From Josephine Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

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 Sloane, William Milligan

There was no answer and no intermit to the sobs and tears she was pouring on my letter.

From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Brady, Cyrus Townsend

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

From The Indian Drum by Balmer, Edwin

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 Bryan, Claude Glennon

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 Donne, John

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

From Barclay of the Guides by Strang, Herbert

One, two, three—the hearers counted the drum beats, time and again, in their intermitted booming, to twenty-four.

From The Indian Drum by Balmer, Edwin

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

I felt the intermitting pulse,—I watched the failing breath; yet so gradual and so complete was her decay, that I knew not the moment of her departure.

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary

At that period the pump windlass had not superseded the intermitting efforts of the old handspike.

From Toilers of the Sea by Hugo, Victor

"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)

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.