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  • Will was in the middle of the hospital bed, his body covered with a blue blanket, wired up to a drip and surrounded by various intermittently bleeping machines.†   (source)
  • And why did he send out his messages intermittently when he could be broadcasting around the clock?†   (source)
  • Grant watched the low hills rise up, and then they were passing through intermittent clouds, breaking out into sunshine.†   (source)
  • Elsewhere in the state, and even in the county, intermittent dry spells had lowered production, but we had had perfect weather, and the corn and the beans were both healthy and thriving.†   (source)
  • And Volkheimer as he hacks intermittently, insanely, at the rubble blocking the stairwell.†   (source)
  • "Intermittent signal loss," called another voice.†   (source)
  • The whistle blares intermittently in a minor key.†   (source)
  • So Brian put a little more wood on the fire and blew on the coals to get it going and sat all night, dozing intermittently, waiting for daylight so that he could look for tracks.†   (source)
  • The police were shadows who appeared intermittently at my bedside to ask me questions I had to struggle to understand.†   (source)
  • Jason's face reddened with strain as he tried to maintain an air cushion beneath them, but intermittent slow-downs were the best he could manage.†   (source)
  • It's a cold day, the sun peeking intermittently through thick white clouds gliding by overhead.†   (source)
  • The darkness would have been absolute except for the intermittent flash of lightning to the north and a soft phosphorescence rising from the marshes.†   (source)
  • And it went on intermittently throughout the day.†   (source)
  • The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.†   (source)
  • They sat on a low hill, two salads between them, the sun making intermittent, appearances behind slow-moving clouds.†   (source)
  • In the decade that followed, an edgy peace between labor and management settled on our town, broken only by intermittent strikes, usually quickly settled.†   (source)
  • Hiro can see the red light flashing intermittently, not following any particular pattern or rhythm.†   (source)
  • It was a cold bright day with intermittent winds out of the east.†   (source)
  • But it would not be unfair to suggest that many butlers of, say, my father's generation did not consider the matter such a key one, and this is evidenced by the fact that in those days, the butler of a household rarely supervised the polishing of silver directly, being content to leave it to, say, the under-butler's whims, carrying out inspections only intermittently.†   (source)
  • Moreover, another episode of the intermittent civil war between Liberals and Conservatives had broken out that year, and the Captain had taken very strict precautions to maintain internal order and protect the safety of the passengers.†   (source)
  • Paul looked in the indicated direction, saw the distant speck: a dot of intermittent motion, and realized how keyed up his father must be.†   (source)
  • I watched him as he reached the dark shadow beside the kitchen doorway, where the lights only shone intermittently.†   (source)
  • Because it worked intermittently when I jiggled the switch.†   (source)
  • From puppydog devotion, he had moved on to a moody bossiness complicated with intermittent periods of dogged remorse that would have been passion had there been less of his hunger and more of her desire in it.†   (source)
  • Intermittent snores from Felix didn't help.†   (source)
  • Farmer moved through the Brigham in a long-legged stride, making intermittent headway.†   (source)
  • During the day it was never far from her immediate consciousness, intermittently returning at unsuspected moments, whispering and taunting her.†   (source)
  • During the past month she had had intermittent contact with Blomkvist.†   (source)
  • Her eyes were glittering and watchful in the intermittent neon.†   (source)
  • Her lips move only sluggishly and intermittently.†   (source)
  • The intermittent sounds barely penetrated the windowpanes on which the frost lay two fingers thick, and they ended almost as soon as they'd begun.†   (source)
  • As for the interior, there were spongy displays of liver-colored carpet intermittently abolishing the glare of varnished, resounding floors; an immense modernistic living-room couch covered in nubby fabric interwoven with glittery strands of silver metal; a breakfast alcove featuring a banquette upholstered in blue-and-white plastic.†   (source)
  • There was silence in the room except for her low, disjointed, intermittent humming.†   (source)
  • Winnie and Zindzi were under constant police surveillance and intermittent harassment.†   (source)
  • Above her, a red-tailed hawk floated intermittently on updrafts, testing the force of the wind.†   (source)
  • It was a cool October night filled with the sounds of chirping crickets and the intermittent whoosh of passing cars.†   (source)
  • During the morning the digging proceeded in a light-hearted and intermittent way.†   (source)
  • Wrapping his arms around his wool-stuffed pillow, Roran listened to the faint sounds that drifted through the house at night: the scrabble of a mouse in the attic and its intermittent squeaks, the groan of wood beams cooling in the night, the whisper and caress of wind at the lintel of his window, and …. and the rustle of slippers in the hall outside his room.†   (source)
  • I had to squint my eyes painfully and hold my hand up as a make-believe sun block against even that intermittent light.†   (source)
  • Each domain is handled by the fewest capable of doing so, and responsibility for the domains is continuous over time rather than intermittently assigned by circumstance.†   (source)
  • The store smelled like sour milk, though the drink cases were still flickering with intermittent electricity.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER V THE MOCCASIN FLOWER Johnnie was used to hardship and early rising, but in an intermittent fashion; for the Passmores and Consadines were a haggard lot that came to no lure but their own pleasure.†   (source)
  • Forward of the missile room, in a space shoehorned into the crew's accommodations, the handful of sleeping men stirred briefly in their bunks as they noted an intermittent rumble aft and the hum of electric motors a few feet away, separated from them by the pressure hull.†   (source)
  • The lightning died and the hard rain stopped, but a drizzle continued; they hit intermittent patches of thick brush and had to back and turn and go on as best they could.†   (source)
  • That is a stunning achievement, particularly since Sri Lanka has been torn apart by intermittent war in recent decades and ranks 117th in the world in per capita income.†   (source)
  • Laura got intermittent work as a hotel maid, and Pablo worked landscaping jobs throughout the scorching Arizona summer.†   (source)
  • After forty-five minutes the barrage was lifted and the paratroopers continued on, met by only intermittent snipers.†   (source)
  • The road became bumpy, and at intermittent points the rough, split concrete gave way to gravelly dirt.†   (source)
  • Similarly, the big Kelley-Koett had come in the 1930s with an eager American mission group that soon realized that, even though electricity had arrived in Addis Ababa, it was intermittent and the voltage insufficient for such a temperamental beast.†   (source)
  • There is an old Mexican saying, "to know a man today, you must know who he was yesterday," and there on the dirt field, between the intermittent snapping of leather gloves, Cesar began to share who he was.†   (source)
  • But by the end of the week she was keeping her food down, and sleeping at least intermittently.†   (source)
  • And as he did so, the intermittent silence of the night was ripped open by the sound of a powerful, racing engine, the vehicle in question speeding up the outside road, its flashing red and blue lights signifying the police.†   (source)
  • Days of warm April rain and intermittent sunshine followed one after another.†   (source)
  • He could make no more sense of all the activity going on outside than he could of the harsh, intermittent babble of the police radio beside him.†   (source)
  • They rode through pines and bogs, under dark skies and intermittent rain, past sinkholes and caves and the ruins of ancient strongholds whose stones were blanketed in moss.†   (source)
  • Residents heard the helicopters, the intermittent explosions, and gunfire.†   (source)
  • Differences of temperament and outlook had kept them intermittently at war with one another for years.†   (source)
  • We believe the intermittent flash indicates that it's not working properly.†   (source)
  • In the intermittent fits of moonlight, he could see the trail of flattened weeds and glistening smears going off into the darkness below.†   (source)
  • A surprisingly long darkness that gave way slowly to an intermittent grayish light, blotched with shadows.†   (source)
  • The sun shimmered through them, making intermittent swirls of blue luminous as opals.†   (source)
  • Later I saw him mimicking me; he would recline on the sofa with his little legs propped on pillows, speaking intermittently into the recorder as though he were taking drags on a cigarette.†   (source)
  • For long ago he had wisely changed to sneakers when strolling at night, because the dogs in intermittent squads would parallel his journey with barkings if he wore hard heels, and lights might click on and faces appear and an entire street be startled by the passing of a lone figure, himself, in the early November evening.†   (source)
  • It had all taken less than a minute, and Mikhail's mobile phone had been vibrating intermittently the entire time.†   (source)
  • …left out (on the ground that they're novel-istic and unphotogenic), and Anna Magnani daringly cast as Natasha (just to keep the production classy and Honest), and gorgeous incidental music by Dmitri Popkin, and all the male leads intermittently rippling their jaw muscles to show they're under great emotional stress, and a World Premiere at the Winter Garden, under floodlights, with Molotov and Milton Berle and Governor Dewey introducing the celebrities as they come into the…†   (source)
  • I hate intermittent failures, too.†   (source)
  • Helen cried to hear how Theresa had begun to groan with a certain intermittent regularity; and how, if she were rubbed hard just below her collarbone, she would groan louder.†   (source)
  • The electric fan droned on, penetrated intermittently by the city's restless night sounds.†   (source)
  • It seemed as pure as the starfires themselves, a molten, buttery thing, touched with orange, haloed blue, the intermittently exposed cherry-colored wick glowing, half-hidden, like a soul.†   (source)
  • He dozed intermittently and imagined that the excitement of the past days was keeping him awake.†   (source)
  • There was dead silence in the submarine, broken only by the helm orders, the low murmur of the turbines, and the intermittent whizzing of the steering engine.†   (source)
  • We heard the noise of the stone-breakers long before we reached the quarry; a clink-clank of stone on stone with intermittent dull explosions.†   (source)
  • From a lighthouse beyond the harbor's mouth, a foghorn is heard at regular intervals, moaning like a mournful whale in labor, and from the harbor itself intermittently, comes the warning ringing of bells on yachts at anchor.†   (source)
  • They could hear the intermittent crash, splash of Loch Morrison using their lake, and Easter's voice calling again in her sleep, her unintelligible words.†   (source)
  • Powell could hear mosquitoes whine as they batted against the outer rim of the barrier, and there was an intermittent hail of larger insects caroming off the invisible wall.†   (source)
  • Four capital letters gleaming in the intermittent spurts of light.†   (source)
  • On the map the lake was called Intermittent.†   (source)
  • The raptor continued to make choking sounds, punctuated by intermittent loud shrieks.†   (source)
  • The sound moved closer, an intermittent scuffling, like a man with a limp.†   (source)
  • The intermittent failure setback is next.†   (source)
  • Dandy and Poteet sat nearby, shivering and quiet except for an intermittent whimper.†   (source)
  • The following day, their intermittent screeches were peppered with leaps across the furniture.†   (source)
  • I was beyond the traffic noise, the intermittent stir of factories across the river.†   (source)
  • There may be an intermittent short in the drill, probably in the attachment point of the power line.†   (source)
  • Then come intermittent strobes that flash for ten seconds.†   (source)
  • "Cell service is intermittent up here," the driver said, glancing at him in the rearview mirror.†   (source)
  • As a youth, I am told, I was willful, self-absorbed, intermittently reckless, moody.†   (source)
  • Richard tended me intermittently, but he knew people, or seemed to know them, and people knew him.†   (source)
  • Dribbling out a sad intermittent trickle and groaning as though the process causes him torment.†   (source)
  • When intermittents recur, try to correlate them with other things the cycle is doing.†   (source)
  • Intermittent signal from the ship, but no probe.†   (source)
  • In the intermittent glow of passing streetlights, he saw no markings except the Priory seal.†   (source)
  • He hired a private detective with an intermittent nosebleed.†   (source)
  • Jason's eyes strayed intermittently, briefly, constantly returning to the entrance.†   (source)
  • The flashing lights of the ambulance made intermittent rosy stripes across all our faces.†   (source)
  • Fireflies intermittently illuminated the densely wooded forest that enveloped the church's bus.†   (source)
  • It was desperate and deranged and even intermittently enjoyable.†   (source)
  • Hazel told Kehaar's news and a long, disorderly, intermittent discussion began.†   (source)
  • The gunfire directed at them was intermittent but deadly.†   (source)
  • But this is where the odor seemed to be leading him, a stinky wisp intermittent on the wind.†   (source)
  • Several of them intermittently wave a huge flag.†   (source)
  • It was fun but intermittent, and both had to get steadier jobs.†   (source)
  • For the next five years, Cristian took intermittent courses at Gateway Community College.†   (source)
  • He heard the chanting intermittently on the wind.†   (source)
  • The songs of the insects were fewer and intermittent.†   (source)
  • He caught intermittent glimpses of the Pacific and was enthralled.†   (source)
  • Intermittently the 1, 2, 3, 4 kept up, then it slowed and fell away.†   (source)
  • Barthelme told me the damaged sonic projector could indeed have been shorting intermittently.†   (source)
  • He suspects the water in this house; perhaps his intermittent digging in the yard has disturbed the well.†   (source)
  • Peterson became something of a mentor to Fischer and climbed with him intermittently over the next two decades.†   (source)
  • The only lighting was a string of intermittent construction bulbs that did little more than accentuate the tunnel's impossible length.†   (source)
  • All the self-consciousness I had intermittently felt over the years, that was sometimes soothed by people's friendliness and sometimes inflamed by slights that I suspected, seemed to resurrect itself whole.†   (source)
  • The storm had missed us to the south but intermittent flashes of lightning and the distant lights of advancing isles still marked the horizon.†   (source)
  • Intermittently, throughout the night, she'd thought to ask him his last name, for any other kind of information, but the time was never right, and he hadn't asked for hers, and she assumed that when they left each other, they would exchange information.†   (source)
  • Extravagantly illuminated by the midday sun, Everest's summit pyramid loomed through an intermittent gauze of clouds.†   (source)
  • So Mirebalais was a place of some significance, different from most of the little towns scattered through the mountains and valleys farther north, in that it had intermittent electricity and radios playing at most hours, a small section of paved road at its center, ramshackle kiosklike stores beside the road, and a few places where you could buy a beer or a glass of the potent white rum called clairin.†   (source)
  • Still, they continued to be intermittent lovers for almost thirty years, thanks to their musketeers' motto: Unfaithful but not disloyal.†   (source)
  • Outside the tank, Katherine was still pleading, but Langdon's hearing was now intermittent as the water was sloshing around his head.†   (source)
  • She had never seen the desert before and although she had been a good but not outstanding student who had learned the meanings of many words she had yet to learn the meaning of the word intermittent.†   (source)
  • Mae had gotten a partial scholarship to run at Carleton, and that's where she met Annie, who was effortlessly good, two years older, but was only intermittently concerned with whether she, or the team, won or lost.†   (source)
  • Not wanting to become entangled in what was sure to be a massive traffic jam (which would prolong my exposure to the intermittent fusillade of stones whizzing down the face from above, among other hazards), I picked up my pace and resolved to move toward the head of the line.†   (source)
  • THE WARM NIGHT carries a soft wind and the sky is scattered with intermittent flashes of light, clouds turning to brilliant colors of blue and red and green.†   (source)
  • ") They'd have to train lab technicians to run those centers, in places that had only intermittent electricity or none, and hire and train many additional community health workers to deliver prophylactic drugs twice a day for nine months to each infected pregnant woman and for a week to each newborn baby.†   (source)
  • When he reappeared a second later, he was sitting in a water furrow, part of the intermittent creek that accompanies the highway.†   (source)
  • These intermittent displays of panic and fury were resented by the populace, because the most terrible bad luck would follow.†   (source)
  • They were in an open meadow, with scattered rocky outcrops, and intermittent plumes of steam rising from the ground.†   (source)
  • The small, secure weight of tools along his belt, the smell of intermittent rain, and the crystalline brilliance of the clouds at dusk: these are the only times when Volkheimer feels marginally whole.†   (source)
  • As they advanced, I could see that some members of Fischer's group had caught up with our group: Hall's team, the Mountain Madness team, and the Taiwanese were now jumbled into one long, intermittent queue.†   (source)
  • They ran through the laboratory, and Tim could hear the snorts and snarls of the raptors, pursuing them, coming closer, and then he went to the back of the lab and through a door that must have had an alarm, because in the narrow corridor an intermittent siren sounded shrilly, and the lights overhead flashed on and off.†   (source)
  • Well, those were the commonest setbacks I can think of: out-of-sequence reassembly, intermittent failure and parts problems.†   (source)
  • The tents, no more than 650 horizontal feet away, were only intermittently visible through the whiteout.†   (source)
  • On your own machine you can study them over a long period of time, something a commercial mechanic can't do, and you can just carry around the tools you think you'll need until the intermittent happens again, and then, when it happens, stop and work on it.†   (source)
  • I'm tempted to go into long detail about "Intermittents I Have Known" with a blow-by-blow description of how these were solved.†   (source)
  • He attempted to call Rob on the radio, but Mike's transmitter was working only intermittently and he couldn't raise anybody.†   (source)
  • Saeed desperately wanted to leave his city, in a sense he always had, but in his imagination he had thought he would leave it only temporarily, intermittently, never once and for all, and this looming potential departure was altogether different, for he doubted he would come back, and the scattering of his extended family and his circle of friends and acquaintances, forever, struck him as deeply sad, as amounting to the loss of a home, no less, of his home.†   (source)
  • Next to misassemblies and intermittents I think the most common external gumption trap is the parts setback.†   (source)
  • Intermittents become gumption traps when they fool you into thinking you've really got the machine fixed.†   (source)
  • In some intermittents you have to resign yourself to a long fishing expedition, but no matter how tedious that gets it's never as tedious as taking the machine to a commercial mechanic five times.†   (source)
  • All day he'd been among the young team, intermittently visible, someone presumably to be looked up to, a senior.†   (source)
  • I knew that as soon as Charlie and I were headed home, Jacob would take off—off to run around as a wolf, as he had done intermittently through the entire day.†   (source)
  • Just half an hour after they began knocking on doors among the intermittently populated cabins, they found Anna Viktoria Hansson.†   (source)
  • Intermittently he removed his gold spectacles, wiping them absently, gripping the frames as if the pressure controlled his irritation.†   (source)
  • Take, for instance, the hypothetical case of a man who comes into the ER complaining of intermittent left-side chest pain that occasionally comes when he walks up the stairs and that lasts from five minutes to three hours.†   (source)
  • I haven't thought out fully or exactly when I am going to tell her, even as her mother is to pick her up any second, for what I really want and wish is that time could suspend for a moment or two, halt right here in my room, but such that I might still enjoy the company of Veronica and the intermittent visitors and the prodding charm of the nurses.†   (source)
  • One night about the time that Rebeca was cured of the vice of eating earth and was brought to sleep in the other children's room, the Indian woman, who slept with them awoke by chance and heard a strange, intermittent sound in the corner.†   (source)
  • The commander, as noted, was hardly evident anymore, and it was Captain Ono who was increasingly charging and addressing the corps of the men; it was his issuances that were being enacted and followed, with Colonel Ishii appearing these days only intermittently before the officers on the veranda of his hut, often pink-faced and slow of speech.†   (source)
  • Intermittent bursts of light crackled across the sky, illuminating the farms and forests like a flashbulb before the land settled back into shadow.†   (source)
  • Intermittent whistles of fishing boats clashed with the incessant screeching of the gulls; together they formed the universal sounds of the waterfront.†   (source)
  • Still, I once had friends from the old days, intermittent lovers who took care of me for old times' sake.†   (source)
  • The vigil at the temple continued, the priests' prayers audible on the plaza as an intermittent shushing murmur.†   (source)
  • In that dark corridor, lit only by the intermittent glow of flares and artillery tracers which made dancing shadows on the wall, I pressed hard against Shiva's skull.†   (source)
  • After that, the argument about the motto, or the appropriateness of the sign as a whole, surfaced intermittently when there was nothing else to argue about around the place.†   (source)
  • Behind me, I could hear intermittent gunfire as Phil and another assaulter were in a firefight with a barricaded shooter in one of the compounds.†   (source)
  • They floated ever upward on the thermals that rose from the valley, filling that middle space between tree and hilltop with an eerie, intermittent mewing.†   (source)
  • The intermittent moonlight, filtered through the massive trees, provided enough illumination for him to count the number.†   (source)
  • He does not seem to be capable of learning from experience, and he shows an unusual pattern of intermittent periods of productive activity followed by patently irresponsible actions.†   (source)
  • The hostess was very pretty, he had intermittently flirted with her all night, delighted to discover how easy this was.†   (source)
  • And having thus paid his ultimate compliment to Johnnie, Himes relapsed into intermittent slumber as Shade moved away down the squalid, dusty street under the fierce July sun.†   (source)
  • But they found themselves apologizing for various failures, for parts of their bodies that would not cooperate, or did so only intermittently.†   (source)
  • The woman stared at him, the bridge of hostile silence accentuated by the hum of the large, dimly lit, candelabraed room and the intermittent eruptions of quiet laughter from the nearby tables.†   (source)
  • Bourne sat in the racing shadows of the back seat, the intermittent moonlight bright, creating brief explosions of light and dark inside the car.†   (source)
  • …already see the red maple I planted in the front yard the first days I lived in the house, a mere sapling that has widened and vaulted up to be much larger than it should be, its surprising increase mirroring, I suppose, everything else I've invested in the last thirty years—the values of the property itself, the blue-chip stocks I bought intermittently, the store and building I sold to the Hickeys, whatever I put time or money into ballooning inexorably, magically, to great reward.†   (source)
  • Consadine, who never could earn money, and used to be from home following one wild scheme or another most of the time, was gone these two years upon his last dubious, adventurous journey; there was not even his intermittent assistance to depend upon.†   (source)
  • She had wandered aimlessly along the terraces of the last, as if in a trance, looking for a statue she could not remember, jostled by the intermittent groups of tourists led by loud, officious guides.†   (source)
  • There he was, crossing from one group to another, the white chin beard a beacon, switching on and off as it was intermittently blocked by figures nearer the windows.†   (source)
  • Ahead, to his right, a man stood on the border of the field, a rifle in his hands, watching the grass in the intermittent moonlight, looking for a pattern of reeds that bent against the breezes.†   (source)
  • When the pitiful little figure had lagged away down the twilight street, holding to Lissy's hand, limping on sore feet, Johnnie stood long on the porch in the dark with gusts of rain beating intermittently at the lattice beside her.†   (source)
  • There was no friendly jungle now, but there was everything he could use-Delta could use-the darkness, the intermittent blocks of shadows from the myriad clouds intercepting the moonlight.†   (source)
  • She began to understand that the riot out there, if that's what it was, was being augmented and improved by a simulated riot on the radio, an audio montage of gunfire, screams, sirens, klaxons and intermittent bulletins real and possibly not.†   (source)
  • For a moment Hazel could hear nothing Then he caught a distant but clear sound—a kind of wailing or crying, wavering and intermittent.†   (source)
  • The family lived in a shack in the Mexican city of Cuernavaca with intermittent running water and power.†   (source)
  • She listened to this because it was happening here but she also tuned out intermittently, let her attention wander, as a form of self-defense.†   (source)
  • It was there at the bottom of the hill and it was moving up and down, intermittently swinging back at the gates as though the holder were concerned that someone might appear.†   (source)
  • With the removal of the ugly coffins, as well as the beached, damaged speedboat, and the soothing words over the government radio along with the intermittent, unobtrusive appearances of the armed guards, a sense of normalcy returned-not total, of course, for there was a mourning figure among them, but he was out of sight and, they were told, would soon leave.†   (source)
  • The summer nightfall was unbroken by owls and so quiet that they could plainly hear the intermittent, monotonous "Chug chug chug" of a nightingale in the distant woods.†   (source)
  • "Try to follow this, Jason," he said, his voice intermittently fading, his breathing becoming increasingly more labored.†   (source)
  • We were restless and grasping, we were a fling that had run intermittently for two years only because we lived in different cities, and we were religious in our attachment to risk, and she was the last thing I needed in this world.†   (source)
  • Intermittent gun battles occurred in the streets, and Oscar had to crouch low by the walls inside his hovel.†   (source)
  • They had come to the line of the Portway—only intermittently a road—which runs from north of Andover, through St. Mary Bourne with its bells and streams and watercress beds, through Bradley Wood, on across the downs and so to Tadley and at last to Silchester—the Romans' Calleva Atebatum.†   (source)
  • Their graceful smiles, arched brows and intermittently mimed laughter covered their quiet conversation.†   (source)
  • Then I stood in the doorway and watched Jerry talking to the bartender and three or four others, twenty yards up the street, and they were lighted intermittently by passing cars and they were animated, they were roused by the vastness of the circumstance, by the forces involved, and they were talking and pointing.†   (source)
  • He had been shot at in the past on one of the terraces; there had been gunfire and men running down the endless stone steps, intermittently obscured by the huge gilded statues and the great sprays of the fountains, disappearing into the formal gardens, finally out of sight, out of range.†   (source)
  • They walked along the moonlit beach, alternately touching and not touching, the embarrassment of intimacy intermittently intruding as if a world that had separated them had not let them escape its terrible orbit, constantly pulling them into its fiery nucleus.†   (source)
  • Thunder still grumbled over the far Brooklyn ramparts, but the rain's fragile pattering now, like the intermittent sound of a single tap dancer, told me that most of the deluge had ceased.†   (source)
  • Clouds like creamy blobs, iridescent Disneyesque confections, moved serenely toward the ocean, sending dappled patterns of light and shade across our grassy little promontory where Sophie talked about Nathan, and I listened, and the turmoil of traffic on the distant Brooklyn avenues drummed with an intermittent booming sound, very faint, like some harmless, ceremonial cannonade.†   (source)
  • Morning-glory vines started almost visibly to grow over the roofs and cling round the ties of the railroad track, where blue jays lighted on the rails, and umbrella chinaberry trees hung heavily over the whole town, dripping intermittently upon the tin roofs.†   (source)
  • Naturally, it was impossible not to remain haunted and, to some extent, intermittently depressed over what Sophie had told me about her past.†   (source)
  • The church bell sounding intermittently through my slumber was not entirely unmusical, but it had a clangorous, hollow, Protestant ring, as if fashioned of low-priced alloys; demonically, in the midst of my turbulent erotic visions, it tolled with the voice of sin.†   (source)
  • The machine had played almost constantly during the daytime hours of the week and a half she had spent under Hoss's roof—at least whenever she had been within earshot of the loudspeaker, whether in the cramped and dank corner of the cellar where she slept on a straw pallet, or up here now, in the attic, when the intermittently opened door allowed the sound to be wafted to the eaves past her unlistening ears.†   (source)
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