8 adjectives to describe intermissions

The lookers on told us the blacksmith had been for years engaged in this business of nail-making; he worked with little intermission, scarcely allowing himself time for necessary sleep or refreshment; that all the fruits of his incessant labour were disposed of in the manner we had just seen; and that he had already three wells filled with nails, which he had carefully closed.

Grain crops would facilitate this by giving more frequent intermissions than tobacco in the routine.

Instead of taking exercise during the daily intermissions, she often spent them in hard study.

Delay opens new veins of thought, the subject dismissed for a time appears with a new train of dependent images, the accidents of reading or conversation supply new ornaments or allusions, or mere intermission of the fatigue of thinking enables the mind to collect new force, and make new excursions.

We had been in the saddle now, with slight intermissions, for more than forty-eight hours, and rest and sleep were a most welcome boon.

(A brief intermission is here offered for unavailing tears.)

She was a girl who worked earnestly and conscientiously with the intention of earning every cent of the money which was paid to her, and these successive intermissions of work seemed to her unbusiness-like.

During the autumn of the year B.C. 427 the epidemic again broke out, after a considerable intermission, and for one year continued, "to the sad ruin both of the strength and the comfort of the city.")

8 adjectives to describe  intermissions