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

He was playing in a piece called The Black Doctor at the time, and did not intermit his representations on account of his misfortune.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 by Various

I set, as it were, the small tick of my own poor watch by it—which private register would thump or intermit in agreement with these indications.

From Notes of a Son and Brother by James, Henry

I have repeatedly observed, that as soon as the honey harvest fails, the bees intermit their labors in building new comb, even when large portions of their hive are unfilled.

From Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual by Langstroth, L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine)

Never will I intermit my enmity to our invaders; never will I live for any other object than the liberties of our people.

From The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance by Martineau, Harriet