Thou art unfit for the science that has made me and others what we are or have been; for thy whole nature is one fear!
Caligula, for example, the brother of Agrippina, and the reigning emperor at the time of Nero's birth, was a man wholly unfit to exercise any high command.
A few years ago, the water of the Cochituato aqueduct at Boston became so offensive in smell and taste as to be quite unfit for use.
It is written in his style, and quite unfit for you to read.
I shall be curious to find out what is the secret impediment which makes you unfit to serve your country.
Then what should the devil do but bring the recruiting commission down here, and I had to give all my money into the greasy palm of the examining doctor, so that he might report me as being unfit for service because I squinted.
I shall have to squint at the marriage ceremony, for the priest only marries me because I am unfit for service.
This self-impotence does not depend on the pollen or ovules being in a state unfit for fertilisation, for both have been found effective in union with other plants of the same or of a distinct species.
The feathers of the ostrich, which are used for dress-feathers, are taken from the wings and tail of the bird, whose spurred wings, by their peculiar construction render it entirely unfit for flight.
The enlisting officers have a theory of their own that no man is really unfit for the army--a theory which has been fostered by the ingenious devices of the Arabs to avoid conscription.
Ervig has but done his duty, for you, Wamba, are a recreant unfit to reign.
They had six thousand armed men, the infantry, unfit for action.
Europeans cannot be employed upon such work in that climate, and the natives are unfit for (nor would they submit to) the laborious exertion required to render the undertaking profitable.
The new king, who took the name of Ali Maghayat-shah, proved himself, from indolence or want of capacity, unfit to reign.
The lower parts of the country of Palembang towards the sea-coast are described as being flat marshy land, and with the exception of some few tracts entirely unfit for the purposes of cultivation.
Arrived early at Tabe-si-kuddi, a small talang, where the enemy had built three batteries or entrenchments and left behind them a quantity of grain, but vegetating and unfit for use.
The men found unfit for guard will be returned to quarters and will be replaced by others found to be suitable, if available in the company.
During the inspection, the band plays; the adjutant returns saber, observes the general condition of the guard, and falls out any man who is unfit for guard duty or does not present a creditable appearance.
The first sergeant verifies the detail, inspects their dress and general appearance, and replaces any man unfit to march on guard.
The first sergeant then verifies the detail, inspects it, replaces any man unfit to go on guard, turns the detail over to the senior noncommissioned officer, and retires.
Poorly disciplined and untrained troops are unfit for night attacks or for night operations demanding the exercise of skill and care.
Cornish listened with the respectful attention which business details receive nowadays from those whose birth and education unfit them for such pursuits.
It is a gift that is rarely offered, and it is only fair to say that the majority of men and women are quite unfit to have it.
He was, in any case, an unfit companion, and our C.
But bitterness was still in her; her folly seemed still so black, her ruin so humiliating, that she must cry, 'Unfit for him!
He found her standing by the body of her baby; it had died while he was unfit to be told, or at any rate unable to understand.
He acted as secretary on the journey to Ireland: but upon reaching Dublin, Lord Berkeley gave the post to another man, who had persuaded him that it was unfit for a clergyman.
He objects to freethinking because ordinary minds are totally unfit for such inquiries.
The ordinary two-wheeled country carts proved totally unfit for the transport of shells, and only 2000 four-wheeled waggons had been collected by requisitions made over a wide area.
Reduced to half its original strength, and its morale gravely shaken, it could but be unfit for service for a long time to come, and the object of the German advance on Le Mans was fully attained.
Christ is come to loose us all from the yoke of bondage, which bows our faces to the ground, and makes us unfit to look up.
We make ourselves fit or unfit to receive the seed and bear fruit.
His foreign prejudices seem to me totally to unfit him for the chief magistracy of a nation which cannot indulge those prejudices without sustaining deep and permanent injury.
It is improbable, and even impossible, that complete records and reports should always be made of all who are sick and unfit for duty, or even of all who come under the surgeon's care.
The several regiments of the army, in their reports, exhibit a proportional number unfit for duty.
But there are manifold lighter physical disturbances, which, though they neither prostrate the patient, nor even cause him to go to the hospital, yet none the less certainlyunfit him for labor and duty.
In those pits referred to, the workable apartments are so confined, and become after a time so destitute of oxygen, as, along with the smoke from lamps and gunpowder, to render the air unfit for healthy respiration.
Those that were shot were taken on board, but on account of the extreme heat of the weather they had become so putrefied as to be totallyunfit for preservation.
Their rank, fishy flavor renders them unfit for the table, though the Chinamen about the wharves secretly snare and eat them.
