'What's this of it?' he cried. 'I'm no waur than my neebours. I never set up to be speeritual; I never did. I'm a plain, canty creature; godliness is cheerfulness, says I; give me my fiddle and a dram, and I wouldna hairm a flee.'
'And I repeat my question,' said M'Brair: 'Are you fit - fit for this great charge? fit to carry and save souls?'
'Fit? Blethers! As fit's yoursel',' cried Haddo. 'Are you so great a self-deceiver?' said M'Brair.英文原著 · 《Lay Morals》
"Fitton quizzed Phillips a little for the warmth of his eulogy, saying that he (Fitton) and others, who had Mr Lyell always with them, were in the habit of admiring and quarrelling with him every day, as one might do with a sister or cousin, whom one would only kiss and embrace fervently after a long absence. This seemed to be Mr Phillips' case, coming up occasionally from the provinces. Fitton then finished this drollery by charging me with not having done justice to Hutton, who he said was for gradual elevation.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
No Devil's sham is fit for the market till it have been polished and enamelled here; this is the general assaying-house for such, where the artists examine and answer, "Fit for the market; not fit!" Words will not express what mischiefs the misuse of words has done, and is doing, in these heavy-laden generations.英文原著 · 《Latter-Day Pamphlets》
O'Halloran, while Patrick Fitzmaurice shook hands with the alderman. "Here's the lady that helped me on me piece, father; she's the lady that sent me the horseshoe, mother. Like to make you acquainted with me father and me mother. and Mrs. Fitzmaurice, Mrs. Carriswood." In these words, Tommy, blushing and happy, presented his happy parents. "Sure, I'm proud to meet you, ma'am," said Fitzmaurice, bowing, while his wife courtesied and wiped her eyes. They were very grateful, but they were more grateful for the flowers than for the oratorical drilling.英文原著 · 《Stories of a Western Town》
He said that democracy was unscientific. "To deny aristocracy is to deny the existence of the fittest. It is on the existence of the fittest that progress depends." "But do our social conditions exalt the fittest?" asked Prothero. "That is another question," said Benham. "Exactly," said Sir Godfrey. "That is another question. But speaking with some special knowledge, I should say that on the whole the people who are on the top of things OUGHT to be on the top of things. I agree with Aristotle that there is such a thing as a natural inferior." "So far as I can understand Mr.英文原著 · 《The Research Magnificent》
Thus would I have man and woman: fit for war, the one; fit for maternity, the other; both, however, fit for dancing with head and legs.英文原著 · 《Thus Spake Zarathustra》
Really? Mr. Fitzgerald, Mr. Fitzgerald said that to you?美剧 · 《Lie to me》
Oh, those fit you better than they fit me anyway.美剧 · 《Shameless》
I am bringing my consulting business here because I think it's a good fit, and you are going to be the liaison because that is a good fit, too.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》