fitful

So we waited, with only a decent pretence of interest in the fitful talk.

Twice more in all; but, the last spell of work was feeble and fitful.

With these gloomy thoughts he fell at last into fitful slumber.

Though he lay down in the entrance and slept, his sleep was fitful.

Occasionally it was fitful, and when summoned by irony remained at a distance.

He was in a fitful slumber when Mrs. Baker called her husband to supper.

He walked to and fro in short, fitful steps, crying that there was no help, no help.

They had some sort of aspirations, fitful and vague as these might be, to become in their time bookmen also.

The breeze which had been fitful at best had died and complete silence had fallen.

Was it a dream; was it the fitful vision of a disordered intellect?