intermitted

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I have intermitted the r�gime for some days, but begin a new course next week for precaution.

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)

His days of "literary loafing" allowed him to enjoy the pleasures of friendship which during his periods of work were necessarily, to some extent, intermitted.

From William Hickling Prescott by Peck, Harry Thurston

Moreover, the contact of her head with mine made me suffer so much that I am absolutely sure it was not intermitted for a single moment.

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille

The heart-sounds were so weak that the presence or absence of bruit could not be safely predicated; meantime, the pulsations intermitted in a most alarming manner.

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.

The fierce equinoctial blasts which that year had lasted for more than a month, were followed by a fortnight of fitful, heavy rain, intermitted by sudden gales and stormy showers.

From The Pobratim A Slav Novel by Jones, P.