Fits

Examples

• As he advanced in years, however, he became subject to fits of the gout, to which, in 1782, a nephritic cholic was superadded. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• She has nursed me by day and a hired nurse has looked after me by night, for in my mad fits I was capable of anything. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• In the center or axial hole of the roller fits the balance staff, which staff also carries the balance wheel, and the balance spring, commonly called the hair spring. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I felt exquisitely mean when I said cheerfully: This one does very well; it fits elegantly. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• A block, with a hole which just fits the axle, holds it against the wall. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This box in front of the drawer exactly fits the opening in Fig.?3, when the drawer is in its place. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Because there is nought agate that fits women to be consarned in. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It fits pretty well, she said, looking down at the white overalls, except that the tunic, or whatever you call it, is long in the sleeve. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• But these fits of hers never lasted for long. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• One may have that condition by fits only. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It fits like a circus tent, and a woman's head is hidden away in it like the man's who prompts the singers from his tin shed in the stage of an opera. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• By the metal of my first ancestor, he went on, but the description fits him to perfection, especially as to his fighting ability. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• These fits come over me, now and then,' said Monks, observing his alarm; 'and thunder sometimes brings them on. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• All that, of course, fits in with the official theory. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• In the evening they played an old-fashioned rubber; and Pet sat looking over her father's hand, or singing to herself by fits and starts at the piano. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• When he was overpowered by these fits, the debtor often turned it for him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• This little oven fits either the radiant stove or the round radiant grill. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Cheered, as I have said, he was: and yet but by fits. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• You must not relapse into your gloomy fits again, he said, laying his hand lightly on his friend's arm. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• She was beginning to have fits of angry rebellion against fate, when she longed to drop out of the race and make an independent life for herself. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He talked to the ladies by fits and starts, choosing for topics whatever was most intensely commonplace. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I remember once calling you 'George,' in one of my amiable fits, about ten years ago. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Give her to me, Fitzurse, and I will maintain her as fits her rank, with the help of lance and stirrup, said De Bracy. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Rebecca laughed in her face, with a horrid sarcastic demoniacal laughter, that almost sent the schoolmistress into fits. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He remembered her by fits and starts, even with bursts of tears, and at such times would confide to me the heaviest self-reproaches. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It came back by fits, but those grew fainter and returned at lengthening intervals. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Its lower end fits into a slot in a metal plate, C, which in turn rests upon a carbon button. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Meyler had his fits of good and bad humour alternately. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• This was a joke; so Jinks, Grummer, Dubbley, all the specials, and Muzzle, went into fits of laughter of five minutes' duration. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

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