In the French evolutions, the difficulties of the passage from Bastia to Ajaccio, although not remarkably severe, so unfitted fifteen of the twenty boats that they could take no part in the final attack.
In proof of this view, it is cited that diaphragms much too rigid, or charged with irregularly distributed masses over the surface, or pierced with holes, or otherwise evidently unfitted for the purpose, are available for transmission.
It was written as a warning to well-educated persons not to settle in localities for which they were unfitted by their previous habits and education.
By effacing myself then, I saved her from a constant and painful struggle unfitted for childhood's passionate feelings, and left her only a memory that she loves, undefaced by painful remembrances of her mother insulted in her presence.
Unhappily Sir George Jessel has terribly handicapped her future; left to me she would have had the highest education now open to girls; left to her present guardian she receives only fifth-rate teaching, utterly unfitted for the present day.
And in fact, Monseigneur, I come to interview Your Eminence about another Roquette, about another priest who is unfitted to sustain the weight of his great duties.
I had prepared my address as public prosecutor with all the care of which I was capable and with all the conscientiousness of a young man who does not wish to appear unfitted for his high duties.
Their growing wealth obtained by encroachment on public lands tended to mould them as a profligate and indolent folk, so that they became at last wholly unfitted for any serious state affairs.
The high-class nobles became unfitted for both, and especially for the rough life of the latter.
I feel so unfitted for the responsibility you are giving me, Sun Maid.
They are all unfitted to take care of themselves, though the girl has the best sense of the lot.
This advice is unfitted for the dining practices of the present day; but when our ancestors breakfasted at six, dined at eleven, and supped at four or five, the counsel may have been good enough.
In various places, the fairies are described as having been seen on some particular occasion to gather together and take a formal farewell of the district, when it had become, from agricultural changes, unfittedfor their residence.
Some artists are naturally unfitted for line work; the rules which would apply to one are almost useless to another.
The eccentricities of John Randolph unfitted him for leadership.
Those unfitted by nature and education to administer public affairs did not aspire to do so nor to embarrass those who were competent.
A boy entering almost any profession or trade can be unfitted for his labors by fulsome flattering.
It is no more insulting to say that women are emotional than to say that they are delicately constructed physically and unfitted to become soldiers or workmen under the sterner, harder pursuits of life.
If thus fitted to rule, are womenunfitted to have a voice in choosing rulers?
It is by no means self-evident that women are naturally unfittedfor fighting or are unwarlike in disposition.
He is the natural leader, and if he refuses to fulfil his duties the leadership will inevitably fall into the hands of those who are unfitted for the high and holy task--and who is to blame?
They are very often picked out of the rank and file of the dullest Academy students and contrapuntists, who are incapable of understanding anything original, and therefore are the persons most unfitted to form a correct estimate of genius.
O sinless beauty that I am all unfitted to claim or possess!
Fame at its utmost best,--and Theos sighed once or twice restlessly as he inwardly reflected how poor and unsatisfying were his own poetical powers, and how totally unfitted he was to cope with a rival so vastly his superior.
Mary, of all the group, was most certainlyunfitted to share his mode of life, and yet the thought of her made the others impossible to him.
He had no real competitor but Dan, who had been drinking steadily all day and was unfitted for his work.
But it happened that an illness left me sickly and ailing, and unfitted me utterly for such a life.
Similarly it unfitted me for the labour of the fields, so that I threatened to become a useless burden upon my parents, who were peasant-folk.
Hence it is that a religion only traditional and ceremonial is quite unfitted for a developing life.
Furthermore, under the new civilization, the older men have become unfittedto do the required work.
I had a long and painful discourse afterwards with Mr. Smelt, deeply interested in these young princes , upon the many dangers awaiting the newly-arrived, who seemed alike Page 51 unfitted and unsuspicious for encountering them.
He is indeed so unfitted for the part that his wife resents his attempts to play it.
It must always be remembered that in realizing the especial demands of woman's nature, we do not commit ourselves to the belief that higher education is unfitted for a woman.
Your education has unfitted you for social life among them.
Marie, your Northern education has unfitted you for Southern life.
But the world war has proved that all the tasks which men claimed women were unfitted to perform can as well be done by what we have been pleased to term the "weaker sex.
The cedar chest, spoken of by Mr. Huntly, contained old books, and remnants of maps and charts, whose worthlessness unfitted them for accomodation elsewhere.
During our absence the dwelling was closed and locked, and your sisters placed under the protection of Inglefield, whose age and pacific sentiments unfitted him for arduous and sanguinary enterprises.
And some of the Indian boys that had been sent to the schools of the whites, had failed to be qualified for usefulness among white men, and were unfitted in their tastes and habits for a life among the Indians.
They had been recruited from the off- scourings of large towns and cities, enervated by idleness, debauchery, and every species of vice, whichunfitted them for the arduous service of Indian warfare.
In what way had women becomeunfitted for their sphere by a liberal education?
Blue is also a cold colour, and while it is unfitted for summer by reason of its easy soiling, it is unpleasant in winter, owing to its want of warmth.
A petition embodying a statement to this effect, wholly unfitted as it was for the sustenance of a population dependent upon agriculture, was forwarded to the Secretary for the Colonies, who very properly disregarded it.
