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 solemn child, who proved, at closer view, to have an unusual beauty of pink cheeks, blue eyes, and reddish hair, did not intermit his serious gaze at his fingers.

From Old Crow by Brown, Alice

He was still a very young man, when, under the impelling guidance of his conscience, he felt himself called to intermit, as Schwenckfeld and others had done, the practice of the sacraments of the Church.

From Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Jones, Rufus Matthew

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

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