| 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. |
| 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. |
| She did not practice at all, and immediately drifted into a restless and fitful sleep, though she did not know why. |
| 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. |
| His sleep was fitful and intermittent, and he soon rose from bed to go and see his son. |
| In the fitful sleep that icy, twenty-four hour sunlight allows, I dreamt of hot forests and beach barbecues. |
