intermitted

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But nature had given him a slimness and an actual grace he found, in his private self-scrutiny, almost girlish, nor could he wholly outwit and supplement her by the athletic training he never intermitted.

From Old Crow by Brown, Alice

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.

Judging from the event, we may conclude that the morbid humours had begun to leave his nerves, and to concentrate for a fit—so long intermitted and so much needed—of his hereditary gout.

From Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Tuke, Daniel Hack

For nearly an hour, the quarrel continued with intermitted truces of silence.

From The Indian Drum by Balmer, Edwin

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