intermitted
Example Sentences
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While these dispositions were being made, the skirmishing and cannonade were never intermitted for an instant.
From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Coffin, Charles Carleton
One, two, three—the hearers counted the drum beats, time and again, in their intermitted booming, to twenty-four.
From The Indian Drum by Balmer, Edwin
She wrote to her Commissioners to resume the duties which they had intermitted, and to renew the conference once more.
From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) by Bell, Henry Glassford
For the same reason the wailing is again intermitted while the grave is being dug.
From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill
The clapping of his hands was intermitted by a violent clapping of the chest on which he sat, first on the top, then on the sides and end.
From North-Pole Voyages by Mudge, Zachariah Atwell
