intermitted

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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

The habits of study are not easily retained during the long stretches of watch-keeping intermitted with hilarious trips ashore.

From An Ocean Tramp by McFee, William

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

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 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.