fitfully

The father, sleeping fitfully, is talking to himself.

Kenzaburo Oe: Laughing Prophet and Soulful Healer 2007

I slept fitfully, although fitfully is perhaps not the right word.

Greetings from Airworld! 2006

I slept fitfully, although fitfully is perhaps not the right word.

Greetings from Airworld! 2006

Now and again fitfully slept, but the pain of the cold always aroused me.

Chapter 36 1904

The outside air was full of sweet, wholesome springtime sounds that drifted in fitfully.

Further Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1920

Only the fire of dry branches lit outside the stockade of the Rajah's compound called fitfully into view the ragged trunks of the surrounding trees, putting a stain of glowing red half-way across the river where the drifting logs were hurrying towards the sea through the impenetrable gloom.

Almayer's Folly: a story of an Eastern river Joseph Conrad 1890

Rajah’s compound called fitfully into view the ragged trunks of the surrounding trees, putting a stain of glowing red half-way across the river where the drifting logs were hurrying towards the sea through the impenetrable gloom.

Almayer's Folly 2006

So early on a Sunday morning the neighborhood has a hushed, abandoned feel to it, which contrasts sharply with the joyful noise that spills fitfully out of Bethel as its doors open and close for entering worshippers.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

The states, ever reluctant to burden their citizens with taxes and conscription, only fitfully provided money, men, and supplies for the Continental Army; and soldiers, suffering from repeated neglect, deserted or mutinied, especially after France entered the war and Americans, anticipating victory, became preoccupied with local and private affairs.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

The numbers of buyers and sellers remain fitfully small.

Meet My Departed Grandma, Fledgling Facebook Investor Dennis K. Berman 2011