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To find the head-master making apologies to him was positively painful and embarrassing, and his countenance would have been fitter for a culprit receiving a lecture. It was pleasanter when the two other masters shook hands with him, Mr. Harrison with a free confession that he had done him injustice, and Mr.
Be you all armed and ready in the dark of the morning; mass shall be said, and the Bishop Don Hieronymo will give us absolution, and then we will to horse, and out and smite them in the name of the Creator and of the Apostle Santiago. It is fitter that we should live than that they should gather in the fruits of this land.
"I do not know what his wishes might be." "My father-in-law feels himself too old," answered de Lescure; "d'Elbee would be a much fitter person; he is thought so much of at Beauprieu." "And the other two?" asked Cathelineau. "Name one yourself, and ask Bonchamps to name the other." "M. d'Elbee," said Cathelineau, aloud, "you will not, I am sure, refuse to take your portion of our labours."
Nature in her infinite wisdom has ordained that upon table, floor, or picture frame it shall sink and settle. There it remains, quiet and inoffensive; there it will continue to remain so long as nobody interferes with it: why worry it? So also with crumbs, odd bits of string, particles of egg-shell, stumps of matches, ends of cigarettes: what fitter place for such than under the nearest mat?
A Tory orator, said and many of his class agreed with him, though they were too prudent to say it that the labourer was no fitter for the vote than the beasts he tended. There was nothing of the new Radicalism in this it was as old as English history. The toilers on the land had always been aspiring towards freedom, though social pressure made them wisely dumb.
But it was no more than the bursting out of an irrepressible fountain, and it would have flowed as clearly and sweetly through a new wood conduit of to-day as through the polished golden channel which lay there for it. She must love, and love the best, and if only the best had been younger, fitter!
'Ay, we're wonderful alike in temper, more's the pity, but I consider myself a fitter judge of right and wrong than Deb, who goes about and hears so much that it's all hearin' and no meditatin', whiles I sit here, and has the time and opportoonity to weigh the matters in and out, without the clack of many tongues to confuse my brain and make me say a man is a saint when he is a fool, not to say a sinner!
A word from that far, wild country, which seemed so much fitter a background to his simple bulk and strength than the cramped ways of London society a message from the very heart of the dark continent to him: "Meredith surrounded and in danger Durnovo false come at once Jocelyn Gordon." Guy Oscard pushed back his chair and rose at once, as if there were somebody waiting in the hall to see him.
If she had selected only the fittest in respect to this old world stock of monkeys, the entire Catarrhine family should have disappeared in the next higher or fitter group a group nowhere to be found in geological distribution.
P. G. Hamerton: "It was not my bliss that I was interested in when I was married; it was a sort of marriage in extremis; and if I am where I am, it is thanks to the care of that lady, who married me when I was a mere complication of cough and bones, much fitter for an emblem of mortality than a bridegroom."
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