Use "fitful" in a sentence

1. Her destiny, however, was not that of the cold mountains and the lonely snow bejewelled passes that brought fitful life to their lands

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2. There was a fitful torch at each end of the stage and a chandelier hanging from the ceiling with five guttering candles to supplement the light from the cups

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3. He only bothered to strip down to his underwear before lying on top of the covers next to Russell and falling into a fitful sleep

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4. Rosemary spent the following two days in bed; the daytime in fitful sleep and the nights crowded with nightmares

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5. Because it was so early in the morning Dawn went back to bed, turning things over in her mind before finally dropping into a fitful doze

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6. voice, almost as fitful as the sough of the wind, sounded across the

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7. It was red, low, and fitful, but it gave me a destination, and I sped up, my bare feet soft on the bare dirt floor

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8. fitful sleep to hear voices in the engine room

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9. He woke up suddenly, as if emerging from a fitful sleep, having seen a nightmare instead of a dream

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10. The moaning and groaning of those around him who were fighting the same battle, accentuated by the sounds of those others who were having their fill, made even a fitful sleep nearly impossible

11. Moshe had only this morning climbed following an earlier fitful, dreaming sleep

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12. fitful sleep; and when I woke, it was with stiff muscles and

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13. The sun was high, beating down with fierce heat, yet the wind that blew in fitful gusts seemed to sweep off slopes of ice

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14. He was tired and frustrated after another fitful nights sleep in which he was tormented by his thoughts

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15. He lapsed into fitful sleep, fearful of the nightmares which always

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16. The following two nights, she had been up more than asleep, and when she did sleep, it had been very light and fitful

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17. Carol tossed and turned in a fitful sleep

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18. He had been woken from a fitful sleep at five o’clock and ordered to clean himself up and make himself presentable

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19. the cock that would wake our hero from his fitful slumber

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20. Where was the excitement? How could people face it, day after day, the same faces, and the same routine? “If only Max were here,” she thought, as she tossed and turned in fitful sleep

21. Morning is a long time coming after a fitful night of fear and vulnerability

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22. As I walked in now she was in a fitful sleep and there were beads of sweat on her forehead

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23. He squeezed the ball thing in his hand, and eventually the pain went again, and he drifted off into another fitful doze

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24. At precisely that moment, Aslan the brave officer woke from his fitful sleep as the day dawned with the vision still in his memory; as he opened his eyes he thought to himself,

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25. While I ate my supper, and he talked, and his mother listened during the pauses of her fitful conversation with Charlotte, I turned this over in my mind

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26. And very vivid was the perception that her escape, if she did succeed in it, was going to be from something she would never find again, from a light and a warmth, however fitful, and a greatness

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27. It was four o’clock before weariness finally overcame him and he dropped off into a fitful sleep

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28. She did not sleep until shortly before dawn and then it was fitful, painful

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29. Ray Andrews noticed someone had left the water running at five-forty-five in the morning, when he woke from a fitful sleep to go to the bathroom

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30. With that sombre thought running through his head, he fell into a fitful and unsatisfying sleep

31. It was tender and moist and exciting and I felt her arousal in her quickening breath and fitful movements

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32. I wake up from my fitful sleep to find that the kid is gone

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33. dangers, but would it be enough? Drifting into a fitful sleep, he still could not decide

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34. Above him a fitful breeze stirred the few leaves that still clung

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35. Her sleep the night before was fitful

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36. a few fitful moments

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37. drifted into a shallow, fitful sleep, troubled by the words of

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38. The night before had been a fitful struggle to sleep as I twisted myself up in the hotel sheets only to wake and untwist them again

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39. Albeit slowly, compared to the children in the analogy this is glacial and frustrating in the extreme as the first attempts to bring the disparate manifestations of oneself into some form of harmony are fitful at best, seemingly fruitless at worst; yet, all the same it does happen eventually

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40. one hand I was waiting for her to speak, and on the other expecting an outburst of fitful

41. Later that night, she drifted off into a fitful sleep

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42. In his recovered energy he was sometimes a little fitful and sudden, as he had at first been in the exercise of his other recovered faculties; but, this had never been frequently observable, and had grown more and more rare

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43. passionately revengeful and fitful, the innocent were so constantly put to death on vague suspicion and black malice, it was so

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44. The sound spread itself flat, and then went tunnelling its way with fitful explosions among the channels of the islands

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45. Of such, and fitful as they, I sing--with gleams from them would

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46. From your memories sad brother, from the fitful risings and fallings I heard, From under that yellow half-moon late-risen and swollen as if with tears, From those beginning notes of yearning and love there in the mist,

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47. Fitful as motley-tongues of flame, inseparably twined and merged in

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48. I felt it more than ever when presently we steamed out into the North Sea, on a dark night fitful with gusts of wind, and I lingered on deck, alone of all the tale of the ship's passengers

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49. Then the imitative poet who aims at being popular is not by nature made, nor is his art intended, to please or to affect the rational principle in the soul; but he will prefer the passionate and fitful temper, which is easily imitated?

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50. With the exception of the sounds produced by the rushing waters, and an occasional breathing of the air, as it murmured past them in fitful currents, the scene was as still as night and solitude could make it

51. Fitful bursts of song arose from time to time from each of the brakes in turn, only to die mournfully away

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52. The moon was at the full, and the scene was further illuminated by the fitful glare of several torches, stuck on the end of twelve-foot poles

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53. The profound depth of the minister's repose was the more remarkable, inasmuch as he was one of those persons whose sleep, ordinarily, is as light, as fitful, and as easily scared away, as a small bird hopping on a twig

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54. “Our Pearl is a fitful and fantastic little elf, sometimes

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55. When sleep came, it was fitful and haunted

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56. Before 2666, The Master and Margarita had eclipsed all else, and before reading all of Bulgakov there was an exhausting romance with everything Wittgenstein, including fitful attempts to break down his equation

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57. The Imperial Charisian Navy’s standards of seamanship were the highest in the world, yet not even their skippers could have held such precise station under sail in such fitful wind conditions

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58. The day was hot, the light wind was turning increasingly fitful, and what little there was of it would favor his schooners far more than any square-rigged galleon

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59. The necessary signals soared to Sword’s masthead while Lance continued towards the Charisians at her best speed, making good almost eight knots now despite the fitful breeze, sailing close-hauled with both cranks fully manned

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60. The fitful evasiveness of her manner when the subject was under discussion countenanced the idea

61. The dull sky soon began to tell its meaning by sending down herald-drops of rain, and the stagnant air of the day changed into a fitful breeze which played about their faces

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62. "Do you not think you are just a wee bit capricious, fitful, Tess?" he said, good-humouredly, as he spread a cushion for her on the stool, and seated himself in the settle beside her

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63. Such sleep as she got was naturally fitful; she fancied she heard strange noises, but persuaded herself that they were caused by the breeze

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64. The corpses of those old fitful passions which had lain inanimate amid the lines of his face ever since his reformation seemed to wake and come together as in a resurrection

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65. There was also, of course, the sex: fitful, explosive, scarily vulnerable

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66. I had the full command of my senses; and my eyes became used to the darkness, which was lit, here and there, by fitful gleams

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67. For those who want to be acquainted with Lydgate it will be good to know what was that case of impetuous folly, for it may stand as an example of the fitful swerving of passion to which he was prone, together with the chivalrous kindness which helped to make him morally lovable

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68. Even this Bulstrode felt that he would not have liked Lydgate to hear; but a more alarming sign of fitful alternation in his delirium was, that in-the morning twilight Raffles suddenly seemed to imagine a doctor present, addressing him and declaring that Bulstrode wanted to starve him to death out of revenge for telling, when he never had told

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69. At six o'clock, Raffles, having had only fitful perturbed snatches of sleep, from which he waked with fresh restlessness and perpetual cries that he was sinking away, Bulstrode began to administer the opium according to Lydgate's directions

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70. The fire of Dorothea's anger was not easily spent, and it flamed out in fitful returns of spurning reproach

71. came and still the Ents held conclave under hurrying clouds and fitful

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72. There came great beasts, like moving houses in the red and fitful light, the mymakil of the Harad dragging through the lanes amid the fires huge towers and engines

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73. Down the stairs, one by one, came women in curlers, men in bathrobes, to tiptoe and peer into the kitchen--lit only by fitful gusts of red fire from the hissing stove

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74. "I seem to recall a similar circumstance," said the old man, trying to remember if he did, then nodding as indeed several memories flashed over his fitful baby mind

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75. All floated upon an evening carrousel, with fitful drifts of music wafting up here and there, and voices calling and murmuring from houses that were whitely haunted by television

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76. Candles set in stone lanterns cast a faint and fitful light

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77. ‘I seem to recall a similar circumstance,’ said the old man, trying to remember if he did, then nodding as indeed several memories flashed over his fitful baby mind

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78. And in his eyes were the lost bits and fitful pieces of a man named Fury who had sold lightning-rods how many days how many years ago in the long, the easy, the safe and wondrous time before this fright was born

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79. Then he took the boys out and he hit the control box one or two times until it broke and scattered fitful lightnings

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80. When I came to the stile, I stopped a minute, looked round and listened, with an idea that a horse’s hoofs might ring on the causeway again, and that a rider in a cloak, and a Gytrash-like Newfoundland dog, might be again apparent: I saw only the hedge and a pollard willow before me, rising up still and straight to meet the moonbeams; I heard only the faintest waft of wind roaming fitful among the trees round Thornfield, a mile distant; and when I glanced down in the direction of the murmur, my eye, traversing the hall-front, caught a light kindling in a window: it reminded me that I was late, and I hurried on