All 3 Uses of
intermittent
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Salivation is insufficient, the patellar reflex intermittent.†
Chpt 15 *
- The indoor exercises, formerly intermittently practised, subsequently abandoned, prescribed in Eugen Sandow's Physical Strength and How to Obtain It which, designed particularly for commercial men engaged in sedentary occupations, were to be made with mental concentration in front of a mirror so as to bring into play the various families of muscles and produce successively a pleasant rigidity, a more pleasant relaxation and the most pleasant repristination of juvenile agility.†
Chpt 17
- What limitations of activity and inhibitions of conjugal rights were perceived by listener and narrator concerning themselves during the course of this intermittent and increasingly more laconic narration?†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(intermittent) stopping and starting -- especially at irregular intervals