Both Uses of
intermittent
in
Gone with the Wind
- CHAPTER XXXIV The sun shone intermittently the next morning and the hard wind that drove dark clouds swiftly across its face rattled the windowpanes and moaned faintly about the house.†
Chpt 4.34 *
- Shocked at first by his rudeness, the ladies finally became accustomed to him and, as he was so silent, except for intermittent explosions of tobacco juice, they took him as much for granted as the horses he drove and forgot his very existence.†
Chpt 4.42
Definition:
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(intermittent) stopping and starting -- especially at irregular intervals