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by fits and starts - intermittently; "he worked on his book by fits and starts"

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burst conversation evolutionism fit fitfully fitly fits and starts fitted fitter irregularly ON piecemeal punctuated equilibrium start Startingly theory of evolution theory of organic evolution theory of punctuated equilibrium	The snow in places was up to his knees, and the sledge moved by fits and starts with his every movement. Master and Man by Tolstoy, Leo View in context This was equal to John's most sanguine expectations; but he would have preferred Mr Haredale's looking at him when he spoke, as if he really did thank him, to his walking up and down, speaking by fits and starts, often stopping with his eyes fixed on the ground, moving hurriedly on again, like one distracted, and seeming almost unconscious of what he said or did. Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context Notwithstanding these protections, she could get none but broken sleep by fits and starts all night, for fear of Quilp, who throughout her uneasy dreams was somehow connected with the wax-work, or was wax-work himself, or was Mrs Jarley and wax-work too, or was himself, Mrs Jarley, wax-work, and a barrel organ all in one, and yet not exactly any of them either. The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles View in context	BWG BWI BWR BWV BX bx. by By a long chalk by a long shot by all means by all odds by and by by and large By any manner of means by any means by artificial means by chance by choice By cock and pie By degrees By deputation by design by experimentation by far By fits by fits and starts By foot By halves by hand by heart By herself By himself by hook or by crook by inches By inchmeal by luck by machine By main force by memory by nature by no means By one's self By reason of By right by right of office by rights by small degrees By the board by the book by the bye by the day	By Defined Payment by definition by degrees by degrees by degrees by degrees by degrees By deputation by design By Designers for Designers by dint of By Direction By Direction of the Commanding Officer By Direction of the President By Divine Right By Easy Stages by election by election By End of the Day By estimation by experimentation by fair means or foul by far by far by far by far by fingertips by fingertips by fingertips By fits by fits and starts by foot by foot by foot by foot by force of habit by gad by gad by gad by gad by godfrey by golly by guess and by golly by guess and by gosh by gum by gum by gum by habit by half by half by half by half by halves by halves by halves by halves by hand by hand by hand by hand by hand

The snow in places was up to his knees, and the sledge moved by fits and starts with his every movement.

Master and Man by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

This was equal to John's most sanguine expectations; but he would have preferred Mr Haredale's looking at him when he spoke, as if he really did thank him, to his walking up and down, speaking by fits and starts, often stopping with his eyes fixed on the ground, moving hurriedly on again, like one distracted, and seeming almost unconscious of what he said or did.

Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context

Notwithstanding these protections, she could get none but broken sleep by fits and starts all night, for fear of Quilp, who throughout her uneasy dreams was somehow connected with the wax-work, or was wax-work himself, or was Mrs Jarley and wax-work too, or was himself, Mrs Jarley, wax-work, and a barrel organ all in one, and yet not exactly any of them either.

The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles View in context

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