Fittest

Examples

• This principle of preservation, or the survival of the fittest, I have called natural selection. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• In this emergency it naturally occurred to my mind that a countryman of his own, on whom I could rely, might be the fittest person to help me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• You are young, Meg, but not too young to understand me, and mothers' lips are the fittest to speak of such things to girls like you. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• This process is called _Natural Selection_ or the _Survival of the Fittest_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But the expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer, of the Survival of the Fittest, is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The fittest man for a particular post is not always the best fellow or the most agreeable. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• And for the place of combat, I hold the fittest to be the lists of Saint George belonging to this Preceptory, and used by us for military exercise. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I had promised Mr. Franklin to speak to Rosanna, and this seemed the fittest time for keeping my word. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He and Sherman are the fittest officers for large commands I have come in contact with. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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