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1661.  Feltham, Resolves, etc., 384. To procure an un-intermitting joy … is beyond a Solomon.

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1709.  Mrs. Manley, Secret Mem. (1720), IV. 195. In answer to her unintermitting Reproaches.

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1777.  Robertson, Hist. Amer., v. (1778), II. 117. All were ready to sink under the toils of unintermitting service.

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a. 1818.  M. G. Lewis, Jrnl. W. Ind. (1834), 4. The flashes of lightning were … unintermitting.

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1890.  Retrospect Med., CII. 368. The continuous roar … is … unintermitting.

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  Hence Unintermittingness.

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1866.  Mrs. Ritchie, Village on Cliff, xiv. His talk was a wonder of ingenuity and unintermittingness.

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