intermit
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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
Though banished for a time from his seat in the States General by the Catholics, Revolutionists, and Rationalists, he did not intermit his labors to lead back the masses to evangelical piety.
From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by J. F. (John Fletcher) Hurst
The worthy bishop, who was certainly at any time more at home in the cabinet than in the church, did not intermit his toil or yield to discouragement.
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Henry Martyn Baird
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
They came, to the number of thirty or forty; but not for their presence did the invisible revellers intermit their nocturnal visit.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 by Various
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
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
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
For nearly an hour, the quarrel continued with intermitted truces of silence.
From The Indian Drum by Edwin Balmer
He desired to drink, but could not swallow, his pulse intermitted, his tongue swelled, his throat was excoriated, his breath difficult and interrupted.
From Beggars on Horseback by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse
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
The following day I was better: the doctors found my pulse regular, and without any intermitting symptom.
From Adventures in the Philippine Islands by Paul P. de La Gironière
The interrupter is the arrangement for intermitting the primary current.
From Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by John Ambrose Fleming
When the pulses are slow, regular, and nearly natural they usually become frequent, small, irregular, sometimes intermitting.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
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
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