intermitted

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Indeed, the lava was now almost ceasing to flow, and the bombardment of pumice-stone and fiery cinders had intermitted a little.

From The White Man's Foot by Allen, Grant

To the Honourable Knight Sir G. P. SIR, I Would have intermitted this week without writing, if I had not found the name of my Lady Huntington in your Letter.

From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by Donne, John

Breugne made me observe that his pulse intermitted.

From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Beste, Henry Digby

During the days of kwedi the men go in the mornings to fish; while they are away at the work, the weeping is intermitted lest in some way it spoil the fishing.

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill

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