It was exactly suited for sleeping and lounging purposes, and the chief said that I could cook in a convenient hut.
Against the road on each side were close hedges of acalypha, or false coffee, called in Tahitian tafeie, a small tree which grows quickly, and the leaves of which are red or bronze or green, handsome and admirably suited for fencing.
I was here a year before I found one that suited me," he said as he rode beside the wagon.
Believers in the immortality of the soul, the Arioi imagined a heavensuited to their own wishes.
As we drew near, and saw no sign of an approaching enemy, they regretted that they had not brought an ambulance; but I did not regret it, for the present arrangement suited me exactly.
However, by working at high pressure, whenever the country suited the purpose, serviceable ranges were soon improvised in every area, and were continuously used from dawn till dusk.
The valley itself was also admirably suited for concealed defences, consisting as it did of small woods, mills, banks, and sunken roads hidden by standing corn.
No better selection of a commander could have been made for the Division, and no Division could have better suited the particular qualities possessed by the new commander.
This embankment was a commanding place admirably suited for purposes of defence, which lent itself perfectly to the German genius for improvising strong points of resistance.
Jocularity sure would have suited much better; But there are exceptions to all common rules, For this is a truth by all boys learned at schools.
Had this author, instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its falsehood, his conduct would have been more suited to the modesty of the sceptic and the toleration of the philosopher.
The slavish adoption of fixed rules of rotation are suited only to a comparatively low state of agriculture.
They have also adopted his admixture of various styles and metres, suited to a changeful theme discussed by various speakers.
Mr. Ingham left a key with Miss Christina when he went abroad so she could come and play his piano and read his books whenever it suited her, and she'd have a quiet place to study her part.
Christina alone, a sedate and sober-suited lily, maintained her composure intact.
He is not lured by being told that he is to be sent to the safety of foreign lands, a far-off country and, I believe, a tropical climate, suited to his complexion.
They carried to Cronje wild rumours of British multitudes approaching, and preparing to make a last frontal attack upon Majersfontein, rumours which exactly suited Lord Roberts' strategic plan.
As a matter of fact, since the outbreak of the war the Government had sent out a larger proportion of mounted troops than was usually contemplated, because they believed that mounted troops were especially suited to go to Africa.
I answered that so far she suited me, and that I had not the least wish at present to try another.
It suited my mood to take long walks in the surrounding country.
This suited my mood exactly, and I was soon following the curves and bends of a rude roadway, in places almost overgrown by vines and bushes, which led me deeper and deeper into the shadowed recesses of the woods.
A sister from our House, your grandmother urged, would be the very person you needed, and infinitely better suited to the position than the somewhat frivolous young women who very often occupy positions as amanuenses.
I think I am suited to her, and if love can make me better suited, I have love enough.
This was a very free and easy lady, but if she liked that mood it suited me very well.
She was shocked beyond words to find her newly widowed daughter serene as some Madonna out of a painting, wrapped in a rose-colored dressing-gown that would better have suited a bride.
Run," she quoted him, laughing, and seizing his hand suited the action to the word.
The place had a sinister reputation, and was sedulously avoided by both negroes and whites of the neighborhood; which suited Jacqueline's purposes excellently.
The early pioneer life, however, was ill-suited to the great plantations, and slavery was excluded under the Ordinance.
A simple statement,--and he thought to himself that he would manage somehow to stick in his berth as long as it suited him.
The town had been threatened by the enemy during our absence, and General Henningsen was busy putting it into a state bettersuited to repel any sudden attack.
I] The genial humanity and liberal wisdom of Plutarch claimed the sympathy of Montaigne, while his discursive style and love of story-telling suitedno less the taste of his disciple.
All such pleasures, which were intended only for this world of imperfection, will be replaced by others of a superior order, and suited to our spiritualized bodies.
As St. Augustine says: When a tall man and a little boy are both dressed in a suit of the same precious cloth, each is suited and fitted to his satisfaction.
The Norman nature and the rapacious nature suited each other.
In other words, his plan was to strangle the speculation and get hold of it as a dead thing, which he might galvanize back to life when it suited him.
This honor, which suited well with the show that Cesar made in his arrondissement, put him in a position where the ideas of a man accustomed to succeed naturally enlarged themselves.
Such a career suited her own ideas far better than the dangerous vanities which seduce so many youthful Parisian imaginations.
Ulinger replied, It takes me for another; it lies in its red bill; and rode on till it suited him to alight.
He only admits two kinds of music: one violent and suitedto war, the other tranquil and suited to prayer or to persuasion.
We are well suitedto one another; she is a woman of character and intelligence; she looks after my home well, is a sensible and devoted mother, and understands me.
The windows were open; it was a lovely summer afternoon, and I have a sense that bees were humming in the court, though this may have been suggested by my fancy, because the sound would have been so well suited to the scene.
I think you are right," said Harcourt, pleased with an illustration that suited his own modes of thinking.
I am not astonished that my nobles are discontented with the share you possess of my confidence; they must long have seen how little suited the maxims of your national policy are to the habits of a happier population!
Folding it into a neat bandage she placed the handkerchief over the wound after pushing back the rebellious hair and bound it into place with the strip, deftly patting it here and pushing it there until it suited her.
The trail was very plain to him, straight as a chalk line, and it led toward the northeast, which suited the sheriff, because there was a goodly sized water hole twenty miles further on in that direction.
But if he should come to be taken, surely his punishment would be merely a formal matter; at the worst he might be sent home, which would a very good thing, for after all the climate of the Peninsula had never quite suited him.
The Canary has a short, thick, cone-shaped bill suited to cracking seeds, while the Yellow Warbler has the slender bill necessary for prying into small cracks and crannies for insects.
There again the home is suited to the occupation of the bird," said the Doctor; "for Woodpeckers are Tree Trappers, who find their food by creeping about trees and picking insects and grubs from the bark.
It owes its subsequent prosperity to its situation on a harbour admirably suited for trade with the Continent.
The effect is magnificent, and admirably suited to the dignity of the trombone.
