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Example sentences for "thought fit"

  • Everything I thought fit to expend I have expended for the Company's service.

  • The first thing he did was to form an ostensible council at Calcutta for the management of the revenues, which was not effectually bound, except it thought fit, to make any reference to the Supreme Council.

  • The taking such bribes was to become a justifiable act, in consequence of that reservation in the mind of the person who took them; and he was not to be called to account for them in any other way than as he thought fit.

  • Juxon, arrived from London, specially authorized by the House of Commons to attend the funeral, and the Duke empowered to arrange all wholly as he thought fit.

  • Having put one of his men into each jar, with the weapons which he thought fit, and having a seam wide enough open for each man to breathe, he rubbed the jars on the outside with oil from the full vessel.

  • He was talking to that knight earnestly, indignantly: and somehow, as he passed Leofric and Martin he thought fit to raise his voice, as if in a great wrath.

  • Etiquette was not yet discovered by Norman barons and earls, who thought themselves all but as good as their king, gave him their advice when they thought fit, and if he did not take it, attacked him with all their meinie.

  • With these words, she again trotted forward, and Telie, after hesitating a moment, thought fit to follow.

  • I satisfied myself with telling them as much as I thought fit, and amused them for three hours.

  • I did not wait to be pressed but placed a thousand guineas on the table, and as I had no counters of any kind I warned the company that I would only play gold against gold, and that I should stop playing whenever I thought fit.

  • Balbi went to the stern, ordered the boatman to stand at the bow, and told him that he need not enquire where we were going, that he would steer himself whichever way he thought fit.

  • I thought fit, however, to give this Notice, that you may not be surprized at my appearing à la mode de Paris on the next Birth-Night.

  • This I thought fit to premise, that the Reader may not judge too hastily of this Piece of Criticism, or look upon it as Imperfect, before he has seen the whole Extent of it.

  • Again, the house could, if it thought fit, direct that Messrs.

  • This I thought fit to let him and her know by your Means.

  • This was the moment taken by Dubois to acquaint the Regent with as much or as little of the contents of the papers as he thought fit.

  • Vendome, thought fit to write a letter to Monseigneur le Duc de Bourgogne, in which he counselled him to live on good terms with his general.

  • This was our Way of sojourning most Part of that tedious Night; driven where the Winds and Waves thought fit to drive us, with all our Sails quite lower'd and flat upon the Deck.

  • But this Year, when the Fleet came through the Straites, under Vice-Admiral Leake, the Queen had sent a Commission to the Earl of Peterborow for the full Command, whenever he thought fit to come aboard in Person.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    during the present session; even should; greater variety; many colors; more active; natural fact; seat beside; tenement house; thought about; thought and; thought best; thought came; thought fit; thought good; thought himself; thought itself; thought little; thought more; thought myself; thought necessary; thought perhaps; thought proper; thought that; thought worthy; thought would; twas done