They spent a fitful hour being polite to one another, before the boy's father came and took him in tow.

I rise from a fitful three hours of dreamless sleep in which waking dreams torment me.

They halted to sleep a fitful few hours, then once more continued down through the alls of Recall.

Absently, Bourne's mind wandered back to those fitful, terrible hours when he and Marie had raced all over Paris trying desperately to find each other.

Oh, I'll probably catch a few fitful hours at the station house.

They took it and slept a few fitful hours before returning to the airport.

So I spend a fitful hour at Dealey Plaza in Dallas imagining Zapruder at the grassy knoll.

There he wandered for a few fitful hours until the stars began to fade and it was time for him and Arya to leave Eastcroft.

Trout lay on his bed for hours staring at the ceiling fan, wondering what Gamay was doing, before he finally slipped into a few fitful hours of sleep.

In the fitful hours that passed after the earthquake, when he was back home and trying to regain a sense of security, Dave Stewart could not sleep.