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  • noun Plural form of intermittence.

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Examples

  • Excerpts from Roland Petit's 1974 "Proust ou Les intermittences du Coeur," presented with different casts, offered rewarding dance challenges to both the lissome and impressive Guillaume Côté and the impassioned and intense Mr. Gomes.

    Those Mighty Men in Tights Robert Greskovic 2010

  • Excerpts from Roland Petit's 1974 "Proust ou Les intermittences du Coeur," presented with different casts, offered rewarding dance challenges to both the lissome and impressive Guillaume Côté and the impassioned and intense Mr. Gomes.

    Those Mighty Men in Tights Robert Greskovic 2010

  • One of these intermittences, one of these vague quivers of hope suddenly traversed the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie at the moment when it was least expected.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • But when one writes monthly the intermittences are different, and an afterthought perhaps a column born prematurely has to be nursed and incubated carefully, else it will shrivel and reveal its intrinsic forgettability.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

  • But when one writes monthly the intermittences are different, and an afterthought perhaps a column born prematurely has to be nursed and incubated carefully, else it will shrivel and reveal its intrinsic forgettability.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

  • But when one writes monthly the intermittences are different, and an afterthought perhaps a column born prematurely has to be nursed and incubated carefully, else it will shrivel and reveal its intrinsic forgettability.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

  • Dr. Clarke's method is to provide regular intermittences in the education of girls,

    The Education of American Girls Anna Callender Brackett

  • But many tidal waves rise and cross each other in shorter or longer cycles -- waves of pulse and of temperature, of sleep and wakefulness, intermittences of secretion and excretion.

    The Education of American Girls Anna Callender Brackett

  • One of these intermittences, one of these vague quivers of hope suddenly traversed the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie at the moment when it was least expected.

    Les Miserables, Volume V, Jean Valjean 1862

  • One of these intermittences, one of these vague quivers of hope suddenly traversed the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie at the moment when it was least expected.

    Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843

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