The mule and horse meat became totally unfit for use, but they had nothing else to eat, and had to eat it or starve.

Dr. Lankester, who has done so much to expose the frauds of trade, that he ought to be regarded as a public benefactor, says that he has seen things which were utterly unfit for food, shipped as preserved meats.

What further marriage restrictions should be placed upon the physically or mentally unfit?

He had not the strength to write the masterpiece which the perverse cruelty of nature had permitted him only to see, and he was hopelessly unfit for journalism.

The nature of their functions seems to preserve their mental activity longer than that of others; and probably they are not permitted to live when they have become manifestly unfit or incapable to reign.

We were grieved to find that most of the teachers employed in the instruction of the children, were exceedingly unfit for the work.

And Larry Holiday was temperamentally unfit to play any part whatsoever.

Their flesh, although eatable, is decidedly unfit for food; they have been tasted, however, we presume by some enthusiast eager to advance the cause of science, or by some eccentric epicure in search of a new pleasure for his palate.

It is a role I am eminently unfitted for.

He remained there a year, but was always haunted by thought of the military career before him, for which he was morally and physically unfit.

The tax collector has eat me upeat me up, I say, eat me up!" He looked such an indigestible morsel, so obviously unfit for the maw of even a tax collector, that I laughed and took my leave.

We shall see that though his amendments in this work are for the better, there is nothing of the pannus assutus; the texture is uniform: and indeed, what had been there at first, is very seldom unfit to have remained.

The captain was an upstart, a product of the democratic idea operating upon the poor white man, the descendant of the indentured bondservant and the socially unfit.

Sure, a man unfit To match with you! AMADINE.

I suppose she has made some application to Mr. G for a respite for Edie, on finding how terribly unfit she is for work; or perhaps Mr. , to whom I represented her case, may have ordered her reprieve; but she came with much gratitude to me (who have, as far as I know, had nothing to do with it), to tell me that she is not able to be sent into the field for another week.

But I feel painfully unfit to guide even this little circle of women, and would be so glad to sit as a learner.

Patience is so continually needed in special-school work that women who are not particularly patient would find themselves definitely unfit for it.

To break the spirit of his men will not doit would unfit them for serviceso what he seeks to do is merely to bend their minds so as to match his own.

We have built on the erroneous assumption that the contemplation of future glory inevitably unfits us for the service of man.

"Mr. Lewes's character attained a stability and pose in which it had been somewhat lacking, and the quiet of an orderly and beautiful home enabled him to concentrate himself more and more on works demanding sustained intellectual effort, while Mrs. Lewes's intensely feminine nature found the strong man on whom to lean in the daily business of life, for which she was physically and intellectually unfitted.

They will even play up this poor little uneducated, and no doubt, mentally unfit country girl, and put in her picture and quotations from her hysterical speeches.

It is hardly too much to assume that a man who deliberately breaks the law is constructively unfit to vote or to hold office, at all events, conviction for any crime or misdemeanour gives a reasonable ground for depriving the offender of these privileges, at least for a time.

Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them peculiarly unfit for the task of government.

Four years at Harvard, two more in postgraduate courses, two more in Europe to perfect himself in electrical engineering, and a year at home attempting to invent a wireless apparatus for intercepting and transmitting psychical waves had left him pitifully unfit for wage earning.

Gilbert White was already a middle-aged man when he was drawn into correspondence by Thomas Pennant, a naturalist younger than himself, who had undertaken to produce, in four volumes folio, a work on British Zoology for the production of which he was radically unfitted.