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 himself would never intermit his work for a single day.
From A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen by Ritchie, Anne Thackeray
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 Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher)
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
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