Citations:intermission


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * There were also of them that had wings, and they answered one another without intermission, saying, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord."...


 * 1813 — Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
 * She did at last extort from her father an acknowledgment that the horses were engaged. Jane was therefore obliged to go on horseback, and her mother attended her to the door with many cheerful prognostics of a bad day. Her hopes were answered; Jane had not been gone long before it rained hard. Her sisters were uneasy for her, but her mother was delighted. The rain continued the whole evening without intermission; Jane certainly could not come back.
 * But they were entirely ignorant of what had passed; and their raptures continued, with little intermission, to the very day of Lydia's leaving home.