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Definition
stopping and starting — especially at irregular intervals
- 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.Chapters 30-31 (97% in)
- 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.Chapters 7-8 (69% in)
There are no more uses of "intermittent" in Lonesome Dove.
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