The soldiers spent a very fitful night as they waited for their orders to come with the dawn. From LearnThat.org.
fitful bursts of energy. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
fitful (or interrupted) sleep. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He walked to and fro in short, fitful steps, crying that there was no help, no help. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance] Reference
When evening closed the flames were still visible, darting upwards in fitful flashes on the eastern horizon. From Wordnik.com. [Capture by the Confederate Ship Sumter of Two Federal Merchant Barques off Gibraltar] Reference
All night it blew in short fitful puffs, heeling the great cog over until the water curled over her lee bulwarks. From Wordnik.com. [The White Company]
They only way they could sleep now, in short fitful frames, pressed to one another, crying, wearing themselves into broken, empty dreams of exhaustion. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-09-03] Reference
You could see the eroded gaps when someone underbought a book and it sold out, selling in fitful gaps whenever a stock-starved store managed to get their hands on a few copies. From Wordnik.com. [When "I've Heard Of Them!" Becomes "They've Heard Of Me!"] Reference
"fitful" - thought it meant an uninterrupted, peaceful sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference
Dunne begins his review by reporting that he and I have had "fitful" correspondence over the years and that during the 1960's I would end my epistles, "Pots of love.". From Wordnik.com. ['Overdrive': An Exchange] Reference
He said he expects a moderate rate of growth in 2011, but reiterated that he sees the recovery to be "fitful". From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
He saw another, more, blowing along in the fitful gusts. From Wordnik.com. [It Could Be Anything] Reference
The face upturned in the fitful light was all tenderness. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
His "strafing" was fitful, poorly sighted, and of small calibre. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference
I watched him for ten minutes of fitful breathing and choked snores. From Wordnik.com. [Karl, Master of Black Holes] Reference
Even in the west there was but a fitful glowing, and the clouds came and went. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives] Reference
She can't sleep for more than a few fitful hours at night, and her mind is a blur. From Wordnik.com. [A Chronic Fatigue Cover-Up?] Reference
The breeze, which had been fitful when they had started, had died away altogether. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
It was a fitful exercise carried out almost exclusively for his own political reasons. From Wordnik.com. [The Good News In Bush's Trip] Reference
It is so only when the persecution is sporadic and fitful: storms succeeded by sunshine. From Wordnik.com. [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference
It does not mean that he is to come in a fitful experience, but the language of the hymn is true. From Wordnik.com. [And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses] Reference
If faith is strong, then peace is abundant; if it is fitful peace partakes of the same character. From Wordnik.com. [And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses] Reference
A fitful storm was brewing, and between the plashes of rain on the windows there was the silence of death. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
To ensure both bickering and fitful sleep, try letting your kids climb into bed with you on a stormy night. From Wordnik.com. [Tossing and turning—what’s really keeping us up at night?] Reference
There was one person in Ballybay at least who envied the woman that lay forever free from life's fitful fever. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
The wind freshened, skimming in fitful gusts over the waves, and the little craft flung off the spray like rain. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Despite the Fed's fitful effort, the talk of all those tax dollars is helping revive grand plans for New Orleans. From Wordnik.com. [Cash And 'Cat 5' Chaos] Reference
Here, he expands on those pieces, then follows Cedric through a fitful, deeply alienated year at Brown University. From Wordnik.com. [Inner City To Ivy League] Reference
My last thought before falling into a fitful sleep was whether we'd be evacuated before the formal could take place. From Wordnik.com. [TERRORIST TARGET OR NOT, THE DANGER IS REAL] Reference
Her sleep was fitful and she dreamed of Ben downstairs in a casket, again and again, until she fairly feared the night. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
There was a glare of hot sun on the long hill and just enough fitful breeze to sift the road-dust all over her as she walked. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference
The camp fire was almost out, but beyond its fitful glare he beheld a pair of large eyes bent directly upon the tent opening. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview] Reference
Presently the dreary clang of the bell, struck by the clapper as the sea rocked it, came to us in uncertain and fitful tones. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
The boys and their unexpected guests, sandwiched closely together on the floor and in the bunks, drifted off into fitful slumber. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
Eventually, when something like quiet was restored, the act was played to a finish, in a somewhat fitful and highly nervous manner. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
Contrary to popular belief and hoary statements from the White House, Pakistan's cooperation in the "war on terror" has always been fitful. From Wordnik.com. [Pakistan’s Double-Cross] Reference
Halfway up the trail they rode into a cloud that rested trembling on the mountain-side, passed through it and emerged upon fitful sunlight. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
It roused her from fitful slumbers to happy waking, when she lay and stared into the dark, and painted for herself on its sombre background. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
Breathing disorders, "restless leg syndrome" in which leg muscles twitch during the night and painful conditions such as arthritis all cause fitful sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Sweet Dreams Or Nightmare?] Reference
Dole, moving rapidly after a fitful start, will announce her own exploratory committee this week, and will go on the air with ads in Iowa and New Hampshire. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Your Back] Reference
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