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 often in feeble health, he seldom allowed physical languor to intermit his work.

From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher)

Again and again did Dr. Browne, brigade surgeon, who concerned himself for her like a brother, advise her to consider her weakness, and intermit her exhausting duties.

From Mary S. Peake The Colored Teacher at Fortress Monroe by Lockwood, Lewis C. (Lewis Conger)

The solemn child, who proved, at closer view, to have an unusual beauty of pink cheeks, blue eyes, and reddish hair, did not intermit his serious gaze at his fingers.

From Old Crow by Brown, Alice

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