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Sentence Examples I then had to leave to see to my children but was back at the hospital by 9.00 am after a fitful night's sleep. The first two were fitful operations against the Xhosas by the ailing Dutch East India Company, as was the third, the first by the British. In the fitful sleep that icy, twenty-four hour sunlight allows, I dreamt of hot forests and beach barbecues. He is in a fitful mood which is compounded by an outburst at the table by a maid, who has obviously become one of his many conquests. His sleep was fitful and intermittent, and he soon rose from bed to go and see his son. Shortly after we finished, we turned in for what proved to be a long night of fitful sleep. Last night was particularly disturbing because I had fitful dreams on the edge of consciousness. She did not practice at all, and immediately drifted into a restless and fitful sleep, though she did not know why. Her sleep is fitful and she often stays in bed until midday, too weak to move or because the pain is too severe. She kissed him on his forehead as he slipped back into sleep, taken by fitful dreams of howling in the forest. Waking from a fitful and fevered sleep to the sounds of hip hop blasting through the house is not the kind of experience I wanted this morning. Don wrapped his protective arms around her and didn't leave her until he had rocked her to a fitful sleep two hours later. Sleep was very fitful last night, as every time I moved I was woken by the pain. The sun rose in the late evening usually just when Eva was beginning to fall into fitful sleep with restless dreams. I spent most of the night trying not to be sick and catching a few fitful hours of sleep, but I was much better by the next day. I snatched six hours of restless, fitful sleep before having to get back into the office. In the past both have been fitful performers, outstanding one day anonymous the next. It took the edge off the pain, relaxed me and enabled me to get some fitful sleep. Having taken the lead against Turkey their football became fitful, then flabby, and towards the end was footling. Exhausted from her journey, she fell into a fitful sleep, filled with dreams of her family. Show More Sentences I woke up on Tuesday morning after a few hours fitful sleep and went back to the hospital. I fell into a fitful, restless sleep, one that was preoccupied with thoughts of him. He had finally dozed into a fitful sleep only to be awakened by a horrible dream, his only problem, he couldn't remember it. Sleep is likely to be fitful while you linger in the delicious sensual afterglow. As passion's storm rages in the empty night will the fitful dreams of lost love just continue to slowly, painfully, tormentedly drift by? Hello everyone, I hope you've been unconsolably miserable whilst we've been away, and dreaming of us every fitful night. The crossing was calm and the gentle swaying motion of the ship had lulled him into a fitful sleep in the rest-lounge. In the park, the rides and the midway are quiet, the carnies and hawkers sleep the fitful sleep of those who have no permanent home. Beth was feverish and fitful, tossing about beneath the sheets, her head thrashing from side to side, muttering inaudibly from time to time. These icons haunted my fitful rest, tantalizing and tormenting as I waited in vain for the Sirenes. The stress, compounded by fitful rest and sleepless nights, ages you quickly. He fell into a fitful, worried sleep, and woke up about three hours later. As the dawn broke over Paris the sound of the tumbrel wheels awoke the prisoners from their fitful sleep and they were soon loaded like animals to go on their last journey. Norway, in attempting to stem the returns from the fitful peskiness that underpinned Scotland's gameplan, ended up falling back on what they know best. So a fitful night's sleep leads me to another gray, chilly and rainy day. There have been fitful mutterings about Catalonia, the region of Spain where Barcelona is, seceding from Spain. In 1836 the Yao of Hunan, under White Lotus preachers, started a fitful war of resistance which flared up once more in 1855 during the chaos of the Taiping Rebellion. She mumbled something and shut her eyes, falling into a fitful sleep. As the dawn broke over Paris the sound of the tumbrel wheels awoke the prisoners from their fitful sleep and were soon loaded like animals to go on their last journey. I got a fitful two hours of sleep, tried to read and write, and at the first breath of light outside the portholes, went up on deck to watch the sun rise. Show More Sentences Nationalism is a gradual and fitful process, not a phenomenon that springs fully armed from Zeus's brow and remains an unstinting armed patroness of the national polity. Both Townsend and Logan are streaky kickers, while Hodge's attempts to replicate his Reivers form in a Scotland shirt have been worryingly fitful. As the fitful breeze swept through their thewless sinews they emitted doleful tones, like the howling of the storm in the rigging of a vessel at sea. Shipp's metallic chords against Brown's restless drumming and fitful swing are spine-tingling on Part Two, and his stately, harpsichord-like reverie entrancing on Part Three. Progress may be slow and fitful, but it can be made certain by the co-operative endeavour of citizens. He made some fitful attempts to calm down a bit, filling modest, collage-like monochromatic surfaces with angular shapes. ReprintsAs a result, the government is making fitful progress on its most urgent task: restoring order. In spite of several fitful attempts to engineer a similar compact on this side of the Channel, the idea never really caught on. Progress, though fitful, will be made on fiscal, financial and structural reforms. They may have fitful yearnings toward advancement but they are not willing to do the preliminary work and pay the price. Sleep may be fitful but you will be resting and oblivious to the negative effects of the hangover. They live and die for the most part asleep, at best half-waking in fitful starts. The history of Canada since Confederation has seen fitful advances towards these objectives. After a fitful night, spent in the only hotel of the town, we set off to meet with our new found friend. I worried and exhausted by all the events and the worries, I fell into a fitful sleep. During that decade rural Mexico seemed to be waking from a fitful sleep, suddenly aware that it had entered the modern world. But with Sergen and Okan running the midfield for the home side, Standard's attacks were fitful. Hossein breathed heavily as he fell in and out of a fitful sleep. I was half-expecting a surprise colonic, which made my disturbed sleep pattern even more fitful as I kept a watchful eye out for cascading spiders and marauding cane toads. We expect the recovery will be slow and perhaps fitful. Show More Sentences At three a.m. on Monday morning Phyllis woke from a fitful sleep to a cold house, so she turned the thermostat up, ignoring a growing headache and went back to bed. For the moment we have fared a bit better than during the industrial revolution, a period punctuated by major wars, depressions and fitful dramas. These and other thoughts raced through my mind my sleep was fitful. All indications are that a return to sustained economic growth will be slow and somewhat fitful, with only modest investment returns in the immediate future. In a first-class carriage of a train speeding Balkanward across the flat, green Hungarian plain, two Britons sat in friendly, fitful converse. This diversified network of correspondents established with the passing decades is the result of a conviction that in the so complex and fitful international affairs, the key-words are skill and flexibility. A sleeping driver who has any one of these conditions will regularly stop breathing for anywhere from 10 to 120 seconds, wake up, gasp for air, and then fall back into a fitful sleep. The captain had obtained a limited quantity of fitful sleep the night before the incident flight, despite being afforded adequate time to obtain the required rest. A cough can be dry and fitful or wet and prolific. Unfortunately, excluding efforts in the commercial sector, the international community's engagement has been fitful, with limited resources offered to help the Central Asians tackle the serious challenges the region faces. It is quite a fitful fever-some sleep that little beetle is experiencing. O freeze my soul in fitful sleep lest wind-filled sprites bequim the air and take us singly or in threes in mad agog or lumpsome nub, aghast to Milford Haven. Examples from Classical Literature This instability of boundaries led to ethnic cleansing, to numerous international congresses, to fitful wars. The next moment scroop speaks of cares, and forthwith fitful Richard is in the dumps once more. Occasionally it was fitful, and when summoned by irony remained at a distance. The storm cloud began to throw out loose masses of flying scud, through which the moon now and again shone out in fitful gleam. In tragedy it plays a fitful part, but in tragicomedy it conquers the theatres. So we waited, with only a decent pretence of interest in the fitful talk. The fitful evasiveness of her manner when the subject was under discussion countenanced the idea. To sleep had been impossible, his dozing was only fitful and unrestful. The ticker began to reel out jerkily its fitful coils of tape, the desk telephone had a chronic attack of buzzing. With these gloomy thoughts he fell at last into fitful slumber. These smoldered until the storms of '48 fanned them into a fitful blaze. It wailed through the swaying branches of the trees, and swept our decks in fitful gusts. The enclosure, with all its provisions and ammunition, burnt noisily, with sudden gusts of flame, a fitful crackling, and now and then a crash. The fire of Dorothea's anger was not easily spent, and it flamed out in fitful returns of spurning reproach. Though he lay down in the entrance and slept, his sleep was fitful. The nut burns with a fitful bluish flame, and the oil that it contains is exhausted in about ten minutes. The fitful enthusiasm of Stinks at once caught fire, and he eagerly asked if the lights and the door worked together. It is true, there were some soft and merciful passages occasionally, but the tramp-tramp of the tourists only allowed one to get fitful glimpses of them, so to speak. 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. For a while I stood fascinated by that slow, fitful advance. Show More Sentences Pausing near the house, Wakefield discerns, through the parlor windows of the second floor, the red glow and the glimmer and fitful flash of a comfortable fire. Find more words! 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