Cease an action temporarily.
1 The Lord vouchsafed at last to intermit the penitential task of suffering.
2 Though often in feeble health, he seldom allowed physical languor to intermit his work.
3 I may intermit my hopeless roarings, melancholy as those of any caged zoological beast.
4 The king had seemed willing, during some time, to intermit the blows which overwhelmed him.
5 Y: They celebrate His praises night and day, nor do they ever flag or intermit .
6 When the pains become regular and intermit , it is time that the physician is sent for.
7 Still the discharge could be observed to intermit (1427.
8 Because the pulse seems to intermit , we must not presume that it will cease instantly to beat.
9 The other is to intermit it wholly for a certain period, and let other subjects have their swing.
10 So, in dependence on those prophets, they applied themselves earnestly to building, and did not intermit one day.
11 Whatever employment the people were engaged in, they did not intermit it during the hot hours of the day.
12 I found him, as usual, bent over his work, which he did not intermit , but merely motioned me to be seated.
13 The queen quietly went on with her embroidery, and not for a moment did she intermit the regular motion of her needle.
14 Never will I intermit my enmity to our invaders; never will I live for any other object than the liberties of our people.
15 Could it be that Hannah's mother was the room-mate of this loathsome creature, whose profanity and obscenity did not intermit for a moment?
16 Then she got up, and bestirred herself for the men, hoping, no doubt, they would intermit their drumming if she could but conciliate them.
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