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He is enchanted by a 'view of a dark sublime grove;' of the grand fountain he says that the 'ebullition is astonishing and continual, though its greatest force of fury intermits' (note the word 'intermits') 'regularly for the space of thirty seconds of time: the ebullition is perpendicular upward, from a vast rugged orifice through a bed of rock throwing up small particles of white shells.'

Rime of the ancient mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

The body which is diseased from the effects of fire is in a continual fever; when air is the agent, the fever is quotidian; when water, the fever intermits a day; when earth, which is the most sluggish element, the fever intermits three days and is with difficulty shaken off.

Timaeus 2006

His love fever, which is of a very low kind, and intermits annually, never comes on till the autumn.

Phineas Finn 2004

His pulse at the instant of waking throbs like a trip-hammer; an instant more and it intermits.

The Opium Habit Horace B. Day

One warms you by degrees; the other sets you on fire all at once, and never intermits his heat.

English literary criticism Various

It never either loses sight of the object to be accomplished, or intermits its exertions while there is a possibility of success.

How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success Major A.R. Calhoon

The strong base stands, and its pulsations intermits not,

Proud Music of The Storm 1900

Reason is fallible and virtue vincible; the winds vary and the needle forsakes the pole, but stupidity never errs and never intermits.

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales Ambrose Bierce 1878

Reason is fallible and virtue invincible; the winds vary and the needle forsakes the pole, but stupidity never errs and never intermits.

A Cynic Looks at Life Ambrose Bierce 1878

The huge system of the trades is, for some reason, quite confounded by this multiplicity of reefs, the wind intermits, squalls are frequent from the west and south-west, hurricanes are known.

In the South Seas Robert Louis Stevenson 1872