On the Spaniards came, leaping from one hillock to another, their naked weapons gleamingfitfully in the moonlight.
Here we saw no longer the great rollers of the coast, for the wind now blew fitfully from the east and the waves ran first in one way and then in another.
The rising moon shone fitfully upon the white signs of sorrow in the little churchyard far to the left.
He slept fitfully and dreamed of Belle in a little house, with an open fire in the parlour, where he would be a welcome guest and the alumni of the other colleges would be denied admittance.
Before we had come to the head of Ennerdale Water, the moon was up and shining fitfully through a wrack of clouds.
A great silence fell upon us both; I saw the colour come and go fitfully upon her face, and her bosom rise and fall with her fitful breath.
All was ghastly in the raw, hard gleams of moonlight coming fitfully through the masses of flying cloud.
There was plenty of light to see by, for the moon had begun to show out fitfully through the masses of flying clouds.
Charles Gould had his place next to a foreign envoy, who, in a listless undertone, had been talking to him fitfully of hunting and shooting.
Sulaco, pastoral and sleepy, with its opulent Campo and the rich silver mine, heard the din of arms fitfully in its fortunate isolation.
He seemed content to linger there, where they caught fitfully glimpses of Marian's bright, happy face in the dance.
The wind rose in the night and slammed fitfully a blind that, as long as she could remember, had uttered precisely that same protest against the wind's presumption.
His wife retired fitfully to sanatoriums, and he had been obliged to undertake the supervision of his children's schooling.
For several days before the exposure Bassett had appeared fitfully at the Whitcomb and in the Boordman Building.
He labored fitfully in his carpenter shop at home or with equal irregularity at a bench in the shop of Lüders, a cabinetmaker.
Lightning played fitfully through the dense mass of smoke and choking gases that hung like a pall over the great cone.
The point of observation is high amongst the clouds, which, opening and shutting fitfully to the wind, reveal the earth as a confused expanse merely.
The moon was shining fitfully through the scattered clouds, and I could see the silvery gleam of the surge, and beyond it the vast weird desert with its fantastic sand-hills.
The moon was shiningfitfully through the unshuttered window, however, and, as his eye ran along the lines of mummies and the endless array of polished cases, he remembered clearly where he was and how he came there.
The sky was full of sparkles of pale gold in a fathomless blue; there was no moon; the darker sea lay quiet below, with only a murmur about its lip, and fitfully reflected the stars.
He had barely vanished when Mr Stewart rose and came slowly from his corner, his legs appearing to tremble under the weight of his hump, which moved fitfully up and down in his futile attempts to utter the word resurrection.
Two days was a very short time to sail all the way down the Yare and up the Bure again; and to add to their dilemma, the wind had settled in the east, and blew light and fitfully all day until five or six, when it would drop.
Jimmie, Laura, Randolph, little glimmers of spark-like personality were fitfully flickering over their childish heads and it was my task to turn them into steady flames.
Fitfully ever and again I wish myself out of the ruck and rabble of all that.
She leant upon the rail and looked over the troubled grey waters, where the sunlight was fitfully scattered upon the crests of the waves, until she was cold and absolutely calm again.
An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a theater to see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres.
What we do know is that our own is a link in it, and cannot generally, can only fitfully and rarely, have intercourse with any other.
Slowly so the soft night was filled with musical cries which quavered about me as fitfully as fire-flies gleam and glance in all quarters of a garden of olive-trees.
The ruddy glare rounds off all hard corners and softens every inharmonious line, flashing fitfully here and there on a steel revolver barrel.
The wood fire crackled and flickered, lighting up fitfully the serious faces of the men sitting round.
Strange, inarticulate sounds of the night came fitfully across ear and sense, as he answered me: "Yours and my honor's.
Eugen puffed fitfully at his cigar, and at last knocking the ash from it and avoiding my eyes, he said, in a low voice: "I suppose some time I must leave the boy.
Faint wisps of clouds floated lazily across the sky, fitfully obscuring the moon.
The barrel of a Marlin rifle hung behind his shoulders, glinting fitfully when it caught the light as he moved.
Though there was a breeze, it had no great strength, and the willows rustled beneath it fitfully with a faint and eery sighing.
The early splendors of spring already began to glance fitfully from the roofs upon the damp and gloomy wilderness of the streets of Paris.
And backward now and forward Wavers the deep array; And on the tossing sea of steel, To and fro the standards reel; And the victorious trumpet-peal Dies fitfully away.
From far the lowings come Of cattle driven home: From farther still the wind bringsfitfully The vast continual murmur of the sea, Now loud, now almost dumb.
He threw a quick glance at the window where the curtains tossed fitfully in the breeze coming through the broken pane.
The flames leapt eagerly about a great oak log which hissed fitfully on top of the glowing coals contained in the big iron fire-basket.
