Because he is as yet but a pupil, and will not befit to enter the arena for three or four years," Scopus said.
Still less do we admire the forbearance by which he obtained his much-lauded sanctity, which was but a species of "refined cruelty" towards a lady whose very soul must have been a shrine fit for the purest affection to dwell in.
But these new troops were not in a fit state to enter the field.
When William was only seven years old, his father was seized with a fit of devotion, and resolved to make a pilgrimage, on foot, to Jerusalem, to obtain forgiveness for his sins.
Mr. Jolter was grievously afflicted at his abrupt departure, which alarmed him the more, as it happened after a long fit of melancholy which he had perceived in his pupil.
Our hero, convinced of the truth, though not satisfied with the occasion of his admonitions, took his leave in a fit of sullen discontent, and began to ruminate upon the shattered posture of his affairs.
Were we to be deprived of all these exotic seasonings, undoubtedly cookery would be the gainer in the end; nor could we so readily disguise materials that in themselves are not fit to eat.
We pick the physically fit and send them to the battle-line; and these fit are slain.
In five minutes after a fit of anger he finds the excretory organs beginning to throw out the poison which anger has created.
I will not make them technical, but strictly practical to you as a young woman desiring that knowledge which shall best fit you for the responsibilities of future life.
The season was late summer, but the land was dry and the grass fit for burning.
In due course the second convoy arrived from the Bay, and four wagons, drawn by such of the oxen as were still fit to travel, were sent on to Lydenburg.
Then his sense of humour overcame the schoolmaster and he fell into an absolutely uncontrollable fit of laughter.
The old man had been taken with what must have been a fit immediately after supper on the previous evening, and died within a few minutes.
He was wrapped in the cloth we put in his coffin, and was laughing fit to split hisself.
Here is the letter, Louisa; it is hardly fit for the perusal of any lady; but you are a minister's wife, and have reached an age at which one may have knowledge of this class of evil without suffering moral damage.
Miss Wepley rarely had recourse to her lozenges, but in case she should be taken with a fit of coughing she wished to have the emergency duly provided for.
However, nothing unduly outrageous happened till last night, when Adrian had a fit of insomnia and amused himself by unscrewing and transposing all the bedroom numbers on his floor.
They called out in the Convention, on the 8th of March, for a tribunal of judgment fit to decide on such crimes, without the delays arising from ordinary forms of pleading and evidence, and without even the intervention of a jury.
So frequently do the difficulties of this position recur, that I have often heard a shrewd friend observe that no man who was fit for the exercise of patronage would ever desire to be entrusted with it.
The upper stones fit in with the order of the sonnets, coming after the sonnet about Cockley Beck, and before the sonnets about the Faëry Chasm, Seathwaite Chapel, and Ulpha Kirk.
Pedestrian liberty shall yet be mine To muse, to creep, to halt at will, to gaze: Freedom which youth with copious hand supplied, May in fit measure bless my later days.
It really must seem with all these troubles as if I wasn't fit to manage the children.
Hoodie nodded her head, but made no further remark, and the nursery party congratulated themselves on the astonishing success of their endeavours to "put her crying fit out of her head.
Martin really will have reason to think I am not fit to take care of you.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
