1 The fitful bursts of sleet had changed into a steady rain and the horses had heavy work even without a load behind them.
2 The alarmed colonists believed that the yells of the savages mingled with every fitful gust of wind that issued from the interminable forests of the west.
3 From these no appreciable beams now radiated, except when a more than usually smart gust brushed over their faces and raised a fitful glow which came and went like the blush of a girl.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 4 The light raised by her breath had been very fitful, and a momentary irradiation of flesh was all that it had disclosed of her face.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 5 Real affection, it seemed, he could not have for me; it had been only fitful passion: that was balked; he would want me no more.
6 Our Pearl is a fitful and fantastic little elf sometimes.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XIX. THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE 7 Down toward the sea he went, in the fitful starlight, half conscious of the girl who followed timidly after him.
8 Neither did he appear to have pursued any course of reading which might fit him for a degree in science or any other recognized portal which would give him an entrance into the learned world.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION 9 He hustled on his overcoat, and bustled about in a way that showed that an energetic fit had superseded the apathetic one.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY 10 He appeared to have the convulsive strength of a man in an epileptic fit.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS 11 The pulses in my temples beat like sledge-hammers, and I believe I would have had a fit of some sort if the blood had not gushed from my nose and relieved me.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W... 12 "Hope he don't have a fit," Lucy murmured.
13 He'll find no words to fit you.
14 Then she sat swaying her body to and fro, and making gestures with her unnerved arm, which seemed intended as the accompaniment to a fit of laughter, though her face was stolid and drowsy.
15 He had a violent fit of trembling, and then sunk into his chair.