fitful

Hossein breathed heavily as he fell in and out of a fitful sleep.

I have lived in a spiritual shadowland, dreaming elusive dreams, my better part stayed by the fitful vision of things unseen.

She is a very remarkable musician, that you know, and yet her talent is fitful.

Just as the pale dawn was drawing the things about them into sight, the fitful barking of dogs came near again, and stopped.

So the fitful calms and Elizabeth's love had not cured Frederick Brent's heart of its one eating disease, the desire for freedom.

Still pondering the problem, I did fall at last into a fitful travesty of sleep.