The other was a middle-sized, powerful fellow, clean shaven and beetle-browed, and dressed in shabby, ill-fitting garments.

He was ill-fitted for the life of the camp, and after the death of Cassius he only kept his men together by largesse and promises of plunder.

The young girl of fourteen years was by her youth ill-fitted to face the criticisms of the literary world.

The rigging was found to be ill-fitted, and greatly strained; and on the third day of the blow, about five in the afternoon, our mizzen-mast, in a heavy lurch to windward, went by the board.

But the net result of his meddlesome benevolence has been that now for two centuries and a half the greatest genius of the Italian Renaissance has worn the ill-fitting disguise prepared for him by a literary 'breeches-maker.'

Thin to the point of emaciation, a wide striped, ill-fitting dress of some cheap material accentuated the angular lines of her body.

One unconsciously thrust his thumbs into the arm-holes of his ill-fitting coat and strutted about in his pride.

The delicate feet of children should not be injured by wearing ill-fitting or clumsy boots or shoes.

Like Maggie Tulliver and Romola, she has lofty aspirations, but marries, after her husband's death, a versatile, brilliant, shallow Bohemian, as ill-fitted for her serious nature as the dreary Casaubon himself.

M. Godeau, whose somewhat vulgar surname ill-fitted his immense fortune, avenged himself by his arrogance for the stigma of his birth, and showed himself on all occasions enormously and pitilessly rich.

With a spirit ill-fitted to sustain such proof, trembling and feeble through its tenderness, I have every where sought, and have found only repulse and disappointment.

I humoured him by doing as he desired; and that the rather because I hoped his thoughts would thus be turned away from the writing; but as soon as I had the spell by rote he turned back to the parchment, saying, 'He was but a poor divine who wrote this, for beside choosing ill-fitting verses, he cannot even give right numbers to them.

Called upon, at his succession to the throne, to renounce his spiritual characterit was a character, indeed, which ill-fitted himthe new Grand Duke devoted himself to the duties of his high station.

He had assumed an ill-fitting suit of store clothes, in which he unaccustomedly writhed, and evidently, to judge from the sleekness of his hair, had recently plunged his head in a pail of water.

For the heroic rôle of Horatius at the Bridge I am ill-fitted both by temperament and the fullness of years.

His head, from which he had raised a somewhat old and weather-beaten hat, was finely formed, and covered with chestnut curls; his clothes, also shabby and worn, were homespun and ill-fitting, but his erect military carriage, with an indescribable air of polish and fine breeding, seemed strangely incongruous in connection with his apparel and travel-worn appearance.

It is astonishing how much comfort can be enjoyed in a crowded and ill-fitted place on a pinch.

Anthony March had taken off the ill-fitting khaki blouse and the sleeves of his olive-drab uniform shirt were rolled up above the elbows.

But later I was mighty glad of even an ill-fitting steel helmet!

This alone was a terrible shock to the delicate daughter, who, having been reared in luxury, was ill-fitted for firm endurance of calamity.

Hollingsworth Chase, Lord Deppingham and a familiar figure in an ill-fitting red jacket and forage cap strode firmly, defiantly between the rows of humble Japatites.

Her teeth were gone, and her eyes sought the comforting assistance of an ill-fitting pair of crystal spectacles.

Longing for sympathy and not ill-fitted for it, capable of rare exertions in helping those whom he could help, he passed through life with a reputation for cynicism which, while he certainly exhibited it, he no less certainly would, if he had known how, have escaped from.

I remember the almost terrible excitement with which I saw Tennyson stalking out of Dean's Yard at Westminster, with his dark complexion, his long hair, his strange, ill-fitting clothes, his great glasses, his dim yet piercing look.

Horses grew lean and ill-fitting saddles worked their wicked will upon backs that shrank to their touch of a morning.