Knowing argument was useless, he followed in a rare fit of silence.

In one of her rare fits of communicativeness my mother told me, 'Your father was a Greek, Ahura.

If you had been a wicked baron and compelled to stay there all the afternoon, you would have had a rare fit of remorse.

He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture.

In 1952, Pamela found him with a young woman, Anne-Marie d'Estainville, and threw a rare fit about this.

He was quite capable of flattening everything in his path when he gave vent to one of his rare but terrifying fits of temper.

And in Alabama, in a rare fit of candor, it is called "pass-through pork."

In a rare fit of parsimony, theorists suggested that the dark matter already invoked to bring W up to 1 might also serve to make large structures.

Only her iron self-control made certain that she would not expose the plot in one of the rare evangelical fits that broke her normal composure.

What was it you once told me in one of your rare fits of perspicacity?