intermitted

Example Sentences

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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

The Stitch must be intermitted, being made with two crooked Needles threaded at each end with the same Thread.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel

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 Brady, Cyrus Townsend

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

From The Indian Drum by Balmer, Edwin

For the same reason the wailing is again intermitted while the grave is being dug.

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill