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

The girls were full of curiosity, but they dared not intermit their work, for everything had its allotted time.

From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold

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

Again and again did Dr. Browne, brigade surgeon, who concerned himself for her like a brother, advise her to consider her weakness, and intermit her exhausting duties.

From Mary S. Peake The Colored Teacher at Fortress Monroe by Lockwood, Lewis C. (Lewis Conger)

The bell doth toll for him that thinks it doth; and though it intermit again, yet from that minute that that occasion wrought upon him, he is united to God.

From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by Donne, John