The natural temper of the elder sister had always been much more calm and even than that of the younger, who united with her vivacity something of the passionate caprice and fitfulness of her sex.
The air and the light allayed the fitfulness at the young man's heart, but served to solemnize the project and desire with which it beat.
The latter has been well engraved, and may be taken as a standard of the expression of fitfulness and power.
Remain no longer as you are, at this guilty distance from that God who, amid all the fitfulnessof your love to Him, remains unaltered and unalterable in His love to you.
Amid the fitfulness of his own feelings, this was the Psalmist's consolation--"God my ROCK!
His fitfulness and petulance go far to explain his acts of occasional implacability.
Her extreme fitfulness had at least one fortunate result--it saved many lives.
In poorly endowed intellects, whether in men or women, fitfulness and its almost constant associate petulance harass many circles and many hearths.
If she was less devout than Henry she had however a larger share offitfulness than even he.
But fitfulness is something more than activity: it implies an uncertainty of thought or conduct which forbids calculation or prediction, and therefore forbids confidence; it is an inborn proclivity.
