How many boys, who might have attained eminence in a calling they were fitted for, have been forced to fill a place that was repugnant to their natures?
Alfred should be fitted for a career that would bring him honor and renown.
Education and civilization will have found their highest value in this world when every man has chosen his proper work; work for which he is fitted by nature and inclination.
On the east side, a large chamber of some pretension, ended in an oriel window, fitted with delicately carved shutters, which admitted light and air.
Him, therefore, had the King named as the person best fitted to be intrusted with the secret they had obtained.
A treacherous and deadly weapon, in the shape of tiger's claws, which, fitted on the fingers, shuts into the hand.
She had seen that his fine thinness was inimitably fitted and presented itself to the eye as that final note of perfect line which ignores any possibility of comment.
Their clothesfitted their suppleness to perfection.
My canoe was comfortably fitted with a waterproof awning, and provisioned for a week.
An expedition was forthwith fitted out to descend upon our little establishment; and, in all likelihood, the design would have been executed, had not our friendly Israelite in Sierra Leone sent us timely warning.
Many a vessel has beenfitted in Cuba for these adventures, and returned to port with a living cargo, purchased by cannon-balls and boarding-pikes exclusively.
Besides this, the best house within the royal inclosure was fitted with fresh comforts for my lodging.
Accordingly, I fitted the schooner to receive a cargo of negroes immediately on quitting port.
Well, as thou saidst, it is a sad hour for song, and thy dirge is fitted to the hour.
Sharp are the words that thou has brought across the sea; methinks they had been better fitted to the ears of some petty half-tamed prince than to those of Egypt's Queen.
He also deemed him betterfitted by mind and temperament for politics than for the law, an opinion fully justified in the future, despite Mr. Webster's eminence at the bar.
He was peculiarly fitted to deal with large subjects in a large way.
For this purpose they fitted out an American steamboat, the Caroline.
There were, perhaps, no lawyers better fitted than Mason and Smith to examine a case and prepare an argument enriched with everything that learning and sagacity could suggest.
Mr. Webster was better fitted than any man who has ever lived in this country for the perilous task of occasional oratory.
No one was better fitted than he to decide on such a question, and few persons would now be found to differ from his judgment on this point.
The theme appealed to Mr. Webster strongly and brought out his best powers, which were peculiarly fitted to do justice to the noble, massive, and dignified character of the subject.
This was particularly fitted to Mr. Webster's cast of mind, and he did his subject full justice.
Now, I wonder what one of my enemies can be fitted to those initials?
There is no trace of his ever working in conjunction with any author after 1594, although in this play, in The Shrew, and Pericles there is evidence of his writing portions of dramas which were fitted into the work of other men.
The Parisians had given their favourite a convincing token of their love, and she regarded it as a proof that she was the one best fitted to share the throne of France.
He is especially fitted for the task by reason of his ecclesiastic and scholastic training.
Her mother was a beautiful blond personage with the mild face of a sheep, and with a character well fitted to her face.
His swarthy face, crooked legs, and near-sighted awkwardness were well fitted to call forth the gayety of light-minded courtiers.
Nature had fitted her to play the part of the goddess in exile; and it had been her good fortune to find suitable employment for faculties which would have been obstacles in an ordinary life.
Before that time Anne of Austria had moved from the Louvre to the Palais Royal, which was a more commodious residence, well fitted to the prevailing taste.
His choice of a present fell upon an object well fittedto evoke the admiration of a child.
This congregation was established for nothing else; its mission is to furnish worthy ministers and workmen fitted for the service of the Church.
The repertory of the theatre was one of the most dramatically romantic and sentimental ever known to France and the one of all others best fitted to turn a generation from sound reality to false and fantastic visions.
It may be said with truth that she is an amazon, and that she is better fitted to carry a lance than to hold a distaff.
Your old limbs are more fitted for the fireside than for the devious path I must tread.
Could you desert your country, your friends, and your home,--all that you are born and fitted for?
This upper cave--for our robbers paid more attention to their horses than themselves, as the nobler animals of the two species--was evidently fitted up with some labour.
From a robber the sage dwindled into a drudge; menial offices (the robbers, the lying rascals, declared that such offices were best fitted to the genius of his country!
The face and aspect, even the attitude, of the prisoner were well fitted to heighten the effect which would naturally have been created by any man under the same fearful doom.
But I had the exceptional advantage of aid at home from my father and mother; also older sisters, who had all of them become fitted for teachers.
Wright was especially fitted to command infantry--a corps or more in battle.
It, furthermore, can be determined whether more establishments of production are needed, or whether some can be dispensed with as superfluous and can be fittedout for other purposes.
This weapon will befitted into one of the fighting men's leggings when he goes into action, so he will have something to fall back on should his bayonet fail.
Recently, however, several have been re-fitted for sea and are once more doing good service.
At the same time application was made by another woman--Miss Anna Oliver--and as a preliminary step we were both examined by the Conference board, and were formally reported by that board as fitted for ordination.
I borrowed him, took him home with me, and fed and bathed him, and the next day fitted him out with new clothes.
The youngest Prioress in the kingdom,' said the Bishop, 'yet none could be wiser or better fittedto hold high authority.
The expeditions fitted out two years ago, with their splendid array of modern instruments, would compare strangely with the preparations for the investigation of 1761, when Captain Cook started on his ill-fated voyage to Otaheite.
The cardboard for tickets is made of a slightly spongy texture, well fitted to take paste.
Therefore it was clear that Santa Lucia was the saint best fitted to oversee the matter that Dona Beatrice had in hand.
When he had gone, I thought I'd just see what kind of shoes he had for sale, and whether he had a pair that fitted me.
From Chinon the Dauphin sent her to Tours to be fitted with armour, whither she was accompanied by her knights.
Jacques drew the girl to him, and taking the ring from the Franciscan fitted it to the third finger of her left hand.
The openings that would necessarily follow from such a construction, under the gallery, are fittedin some places with small huts or houses.
His oaths, both in French and English, were better fittedfor the Five Points in New York, or St. Giles of London, than anywhere among Christians.
The cabin was small; but being fitted in the usual manner with side berths, was used for a dormitory.
As he had said, they found several rooms fitted up with beds, and a few pieces of furniture.
He slipped the gleaming diamond on her finger and it fitted exactly.
Winfield fitted a story to every object in the room.
Lydia Cogdell was a person of singular vigor of mind and character, well fitted to encounter the cares and trials of her early widowhood.
Who so fitted for the exposure and correction of error, of allaying the ignoble passions of hatred and revenge, and rekindling the national affections inspired by a common and honorable history?
The genius and intellectual habits of Moore fitted him for the bar rather than a deliberative assembly.
He who has fitted us for our condition, and assigned to us its appropriate duties, has not left his work unfinished, and omitted to provide a penalty for the neglect of our obligations.
A young man of very rare accomplishments and energy, fitted equally for the cloister of the scholar and for the field of battle, has been snatched from our midst.
