| 1. | His breath had become intermittent a little rattling interrupted it. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 2. | Then, in the intermittent darknesses, I saw the moon spinning swiftly through her quarters from new to full, and had a faint glimpse of the circling stars. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 3. | And very faint now, but very distinct through the hot, quiet air, one heard the whirr of a machine-gun that was presently stilled, and an intermittent cracking of rifles. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 4. | For some minutes I lay there in the rain and darkness watching, by the intermittent light, these monstrous beings of metal moving about in the distance over the hedge tops. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 5. | At any rate, as the dusk came on a slow, intermittent movement upon the sand pits began, a movement that seemed to gather force as the stillness of the evening about the cylinder remained unbroken. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 6. | 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 narratio. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 7. | The intermittent gleams from the air-holes only appeared at very long intervals, and were so wan that the full sunlight seemed like the light of the moon all the rest was mist, miasma, opaqueness, blackness. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 8. | This twilight, sufficient to enable a person to see his way, intermittent on account of the clouds, resembled the sort of livid light which falls through an air-hole in a cellar, before which the passersby come and go. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 9. | Meanwhile still more projectiles, now with the swift sinister whistle of a cannon ball, now with the agreeable intermittent whistle of a shell, flew over people's heads incessantly, but not one fell close by, they all flew over. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |