intermitted

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For a long time these walks had been intermitted, and he had almost forgotten the irritation of the past in this respect.

From A Country Gentleman and his Family by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

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 Stitch must be intermitted, being made with two crooked Needles threaded at each end with the same Thread.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel

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

It was a nightly ceremony which had not been intermitted since the two came to the Point.

From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Brady, Cyrus Townsend