I did set forth to do great things, but nownow do I know myself unfit and most unworthy.

Unfit am I for great achievements.

The river crossed, he spurred his steed, Lest he might reach the gate Of Jarez at an hour unfit, Too early or too late.

We had been without bread for above a week, and while we had plenty of cattle for beef, we had no salt with which to cure the meat, and the hot summer sun soon made it unfit to eat.

I felt that, if what was whispered and muttered and murmured was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.

I felt that, if what was whispered and muttered and murmured was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.

He was free from the sensuality and profligacy of his age, but for public life he was unfit.

Thus, of à Kempis he says: There is much that is quite unfit for, and untrue of, people who live in the ordinary relations of life.

John Effingham, too, well understood that no one messed with the commander of a vessel of war, in his own ship, who was, in any way, thought to be an unfit associate.

He seems so much in, and yet so much out of his place; is both so rusé, and so unpractised; so unfit for what he is, and so ready at every thing, that I scarcely know how to apply terms in any matter with which he has the smallest connection.

They come with great winds that try the pines for their work upon the seas and strike out the unfit.

And if so, can it be a work unfit for, unworthy of, a clergymanwhose duty is to preach Him to all, and in all ways,to call on men to consider that physical world which, like the spiritual world, consists, holds together, by Him, and lives and moves and has its being in Him?

Briefly, from this proceeding men become unwilling to mark, unfit to apprehend, indisposed to embrace any good instruction or advice; it maketh them indocile and intractable, averse from better instruction, pertinacious in their opinions, and refractory in their ways.

If the Secretary were satisfied that I am a reckless sort of bully, he would decide that I am unfit to be an officer of the Navy.

I hope GOD will yet grant me a little longer life, and make me less unfit to appear before him.'

'I am afraid that you do not thank me for having brought you to any place so unfit for a gentleman,' said Tregarva, seeing Lancelot's sad face.

'Because it is so unfit for a gentleman, therefore I do thank you.

There is, of course, no doubt about Sextus; the emperor's own proscription brands him as a miscreant unfit to live, and he was lucky to have died by accident instead of being torn apart by tongs.

The vast majority of Romans were unfit to challenge his contempt of them, and his contempt was never under cover for a moment.

In a word, the Knoll was to be abandoned, as a spot unfit to be occupied in such a war.

He had shown, as he intended to, from the man's own lips that he was unfit to have possession either of the child or of his property.

The sister was inveterate; the husband irreconcilable; in every respect unfit for a husband, even for a French onemade, perhaps, more delicate to these particulars by the customs of a people among whom he was then resident, so contrary to those of his own countrymen.

Why fruits brought to market are generally unfit to be eaten.

The men of this island are unfit for soldiers, and hire others when they have occasion to go to war.

He entertains us in the best leisure of our lifethat is, between meals; the most unfit time for study or bodily exercise.