Fitted

Examples

• He, the noble, the warlike, the great in every quality that can adorn the mind and person of man; he is fitted to be the Protector of England. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He led them into a stone kitchen, fitted with coppers for dressing the prison food, and pointed to a door. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Then it will be our duty to select, if we can, natures which are fitted for the task of guarding the city? Plato. The Republic.
• He knew he should have to go slowly, and the instincts of his race fitted him to suffer rebuffs and put up with delays. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• She had put on a dress of stiff old greenish brocade, that fitted tight and made her look tall and rather terrible, ghastly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• All battleships in the United States Navy are now fitted with the gyroscopic compass. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• She is lovely in this world, and fitted for this world. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• In some degree also he was fitted to reconcile all parties. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• They were of different forms, but that most commonly in use consisted of an upright post and a transverse movable beam on which the seat was fitted or from which it was suspended by a chain. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The state of my spirits little fitted me for the society of a stranger; but the meeting was inevitable, and I resigned myself to make the best of it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I went thither to render to Isaac the Jew of York, replied Gurth, the price of a suit of armour with which he fitted my master for this tournament. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The gunsmith was so impressed by the boy and his accomplishment that, after rifling the barrel, he fitted it with a lock. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Her thimble is scarcely fitted on, her needle scarce threaded, when a sudden thought calls her upstairs. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Nevertheless, low and simple forms will long endure if well fitted for their simple conditions of life. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• If you have not, you are not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a considerable part in the history of the country. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• It was a place fitted for such a work, being hardly more than a rock, whose high sides were continually beaten upon by the waves. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• This value was antecedent to, and independent of their being employed as coin, and was the quality which fitted them for that employment. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The little sitting-room which Fanny had furnished and fitted up for herself was a back parlour, looking into a garden. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The mark was not yet blurred out by the rain--and the girl's boot fitted it to a hair. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Mrs. Norris is much better fitted than my mother for having the charge of you now. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I suppose it fitted in somehow with his character. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Generally, the most vigorous males, those which are best fitted for their places in nature, will leave most progeny. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The doors, both inside and outside, should be fitted with rubber, so as to close perfectly tight, and both doors must never be opened at the same time. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Nothing that he wore then fitted him or seemed to belong to him; and everything that he wore then grazed him. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• It has been fitted up with every attention to substantial comfort; perhaps to a little elegance besides; but of that you shall judge for yourselves. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Mary's powers were by no means fitted for such a display; her voice was weak, and her manner affected. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• And the Semitic nomads were closer to the earlier civilizations, a thing that fitted in with their greater aptitude for trade and counting. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Their work is in the shops, devising improvements that will make the airship safer and better fitted for commercial uses. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• This consists of a large cast-iron cylinder fitted with a plunger, which is made to work water-tight therein by means of suitable packing. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The retort, A, is fitted in a small furnace. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.

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