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

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

I am obliged to acknowledge my belief that Mrs. Loraine's messenger was exceedingly unreasonable, for he did not intermit his hammering long enough to ascertain whether any one was coming to the door or not.

From Seek and Find or The Adventures of a Smart Boy by Optic, Oliver

Though Franklin took every thing by the smooth handle, he did not, on that account, intermit any intensity of labor to accomplish his purposes.

From Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

Only in the early morning, and for an hour, or an hour and a half after lunch, did Claude intermit his labors.

From The Way of Ambition by Soper, J. H. Gardner