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by fits and starts

synonyms for by fits and starts

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With the dispersal of the spores the cone shrivels up, and then the stems starts to send out green branches.

All along the highways and by-paths of our literature we encounter much that pertains to this "queen of plants."

She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.

John was baptizing at a large pool called Ænon-by-Saleim,—probably allegorical, meaning “Fountain of Repose.”

The sewing-machine made a resounding clatter in the room; it was of a ponderous, by-gone make.

No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.

Mr. Spurrell came down to see a horse, and we shall be very glad to have the benefit of his opinion by-and-by.

They were eaten too quickly, in long gulps of four-and-twenty hours at a time.

Mr. Slocum was not educated in a university, and his life has been in by-paths, and out-of-the-way places.

The merest acquaintance would have said something more emphatic than "I will, thank you; good-by," to such a request.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985