"By fits and starts" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... so very gay, And not by fits and starts, But ever, through each livelong day She's sunshine to ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) • Various
... in the case of uneducated persons, happens because they are not conscious of those faculties, or of their right laws, but use them blindly and capriciously, by fits and starts, talking sense on one point and ...
— Phaethon • Charles Kingsley
... grottoes, crammed with machine-guns, were so many fortresses; the whole valley was a veritable hell. There were incessant counter-attacks, which the Allies, on the bare plateau, entirely devoid of cover, could repel only with the greatest difficulty. They pushed forward step by step, and by fits and starts. On the 19th our troops were hard put to it to hold the ground they had taken the day before; on the 20th they barely began to nibble at the ravines, at Ploisy and L'Echelle. On the 21st the Americans took Berzy-le-Sec, and the French were astride the lower waters of the ...
— World's War Events, Volume III • Various
... sir, mark this, and judge how my mind is troubled. The spectre came back, a week ago. Ever since, it has been there, now and again, by fits and starts." ...
— Mugby Junction • Charles Dickens
... mentioned Beethoven. And from this period onwards the kinship between the two composers becomes more evident. Haydn, however, did not, like Beethoven, rise steadily higher and higher; great moments came, as it were, by fits and starts. He wrote in season and out of season; nulla dies sine linea seems to have been his motto. With Beethoven, a later work, unless it be one of his few pieces d'occasion, means a fuller revelation of ...
— The Pianoforte Sonata - Its Origin and Development • J.S. Shedlock
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