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

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

General Scott, nevertheless, though equally anxious to terminate the conflict, did not for a moment intermit his military vigilance.

From Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California by Mayer, Brantz

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)

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