intermit
Example Sentences
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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
May will lay her parting injunctions on Dora to plague herself perpetually with the monster, and these will be like dying words to Dora, she will sooner die herself than intermit a single harassing attention.
From A Houseful of Girls by Tytler, Sarah
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
It must not be supposed, however, that this private sorrow induced Mrs Twitter selfishly to forget the poor, or intermit her labours among them.
From Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
Run to your houses, fall upon your knees, Pray to the gods to intermit the plague55 That needs must light on this ingratitude.
From The Ontario High School Reader by Marty, A.E.
