Even in the fitful light of the widely spaced lanterns, he knew his way.

David was alone once again in the cold, fitful light of the phone booth.

She could see only the gleam of his teeth in the fitful light.

She shivered, for the torches they had set to either side of the altar gave out no heat, and only a fitful light.

It hissed and sputtered quietly, bathing the room in fitful red light.

The flash of electronic fire was filling the whole hangar with fitful light.

The dying fire gave out only a fitful light in the deserted room usually filled with servants at that hour of the day.

But flashing and dying, they never cohere long enough to cast more than fitful light on the human condition or the play's particular characters.

A reddish, fitful light was coming from a window above.

By that fitful light he was able to see what was in the shadows.