There came a time, not infrequent, when placid twilights fell on Anzac, when even the intermittent crack of rifles or the occasional burst of a bomb passed almost unnoticed.
On the second time of doubling, when the fire from the Emden had died down to an intermittent gun fire, the Sydney ran in to close range (4,000 yards) and fired a torpedo.
From an intermittent rifle fire the sound of the sharp crackle of rifles intensified and extended from end to end of the Turkish lines.
For thirty hours now he had been working under an intermittent fire to gain a footing on Rhododendron spur.
It was cold and raining, and during the night the enemy showed no disposition to renew the attack, though an intermittent fire was kept up.
Associated, no doubt, with the crustal movements which closed the Cretaceous and inaugurated the Eocene period, there were local and intermittent manifestations of volcanic activity throughout the period.
The stream of law reports became intermittent under Henry VIII.
The family are described by Claus as "intermittent parasites," because when gorged they leave their hosts, fishes or frogs, and swim about in freedom for a considerable period.
The tilt of the northern edge of the plateau puts their sources above the level of the great springs, and causes them to be dependent on these intermittent and often scanty rains.
Hence in the intermittent system most of the heat generated within the furnace escapes from it with the products of combustion.
To heat these on the intermittent plan for further rolling, i.
They still identify these with ruins on the detached mesas in the valley to the south and along the Moen-kopi (“place of flowing water”) and other intermittent streams in the west.
This gave rise to intermittent warfare in the outlying fields, and whenever the contending villagers met a broil ensued, until the strife culminated in an attack upon Walpi.
The poor thing was conscious of this, and dreaded her own weakness, as the victim of intermittent insanity dreads the oncoming of the old illusion.
By night he had not known sleep--only intermittent dozing, in which he seemed to be finding Caterina dead, and woke up with a start from this unreal agony to the real anguish of believing that he should see her no more.
Mr. Pilgrim generally spoke with an intermittentkind of splutter; indeed, one of his patients had observed that it was a pity such a clever man had a 'pediment' in his speech.
All was silent save for the intermittentclamor of the wassailers in the room beneath.
There was no sound to breach it save the gurgling murmur of the river, and this was subdued and intermittent like the death-rattle in the throat of the dying.
And having thus paid his ultimate compliment to Johnnie, Himes relapsed into intermittent slumber as Shade moved away down the squalid, dusty street under the fierce July sun.
Outside there was the occasional cry of some animal in alarm or pain, or calling to its mate, and the intermittent sounds of the Malay and Dyak servants.
Belinda still kept up an intermittent coquetry with Amaldi, though he did not meet her with the complaisance of those first days.
He grew very irritable at times, under the double stress of the intermittent pain, and the desire for larger doses of morphia than he dared take.
Intermittent filtration has passed beyond the experimental stage and has been adopted already by a number of cities where such a method of sewage disposal seems to answer all purposes.
Sewage may be purified mechanically and chemically by method of intermittent filtration by passing it through filter beds of gravel, sand, coke, cinders, or any such materials.
He seems to have had intermittent attacks of hypochondria.
He suffered from intermittent action of the heart, from nervous weakness, and from dyspepsia; he feared now paralysis, now blindness, now consumption.
I listen to the twittering of the birds, shorter lived than ourselves, and the intermittent rushing of the wind, which, while life lasts, goes on always the same.
In the "Interpretations" he demonstrated not merely the worth of Longfellow, but the intermittent genius of Mrs. Norton.
Beside these passing and intermittent states, there are other more durable ones, where this strengthening influence of society makes itself felt with greater consequences and frequently even with greater brilliancy.
Even such great disturbances as the coal strike have a minor root in our inadequate transportation facilities and their responsibility for intermittent operation of the mines.
Then she turned very suddenly and looked down upon you and pretended that she did not know you, with her color coming and going all luminous and intermittent like a pink and white flashlight.
Then silence drew a sheet of fog around herself and passed into a cold torpor of repose, affected only by the waves that licked the shores with intermittent thirst.
Daughter, he has the bilious intermittent fever, the legacy of all his fathers.
What held her to fortitude had been the drone and intermittent hoot of a steam-organ many streets away.
Tilda's eyes never left the tug; but the boy keptintermittent watch only, being busy writing with the stump of a pencil on a scrap of paper he had spread on the gritty concrete.
Intermittent puffs of smoke arising from a point between Skinny and Buck showed where Lanky Smith was improving each shining hour.
The distance was undulating prairie, bisected by stretches of the intermittentstreams peculiar to the region lined with the rich green of live-oak and water-elm.
