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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Jake was constitutionally unfitted to be a member of such a party of exploration, where vigilance and alertness were essential to safety and success.

With no great instinct for politics, nor any marked gift of tact and discernment, unsuccessful as a rule as colonists, and with no understanding of how to governexcept on the Prussian lines, which are every day becoming more obsolete and less adapted to the modern worldthe rôle which their empire-building philosophers set out for them is one which they are eminently unfitted to fulfil.

A wheel and a barrel seem to have the flimsiest possible constitutions; they consist of numerous separate pieces all oddly shaped, which, when lying in a heap, look hopelessly unfitted for union; but put them properly together, compress them with a tire in the one case and with hoops in the other, and a remarkably enduring organisation will result.

whose graceful minds, like some enchanted well, In whose calm depths the pure and beautiful Alone are mirrored, are, on account of their very sweetness and simplicity, singularly unfitted to convey any true likeness of the coarse and stormy Middle Age.

I believe tremendously in married happiness, but I think I must be one of the women who are temperamentally unfitted to make any man happy.

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.

It is the more regrettable that instruction in the national school, as fixed by the regulations, and as given in practice in a still duller form, is totally unfitted to raise such feelings, and thus to do some real service to the country.

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.