Qualified

Examples

• Perhaps, said Darcy, I should have judged better, had I sought an introduction; but I am ill-qualified to recommend myself to strangers. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I incautiously gave a qualified assent to this. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Like himself they had failed to grasp the necessity of entrusting the work of settlement to more specially qualified men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Or, perhaps she may not have resources enough in herself to be qualified for a country life. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The native faculties of his mind qualified him to penetrate into every science: and his unremitted diligence left no field of knowledge unexplored. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The threat is qualified. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• To have served an apprenticeship in the town, under a master properly qualified, is commonly the necessary requisite for obtaining this freedom. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I was so young and childish, and so little qualified--how could I be otherwise? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• In Rome the _proletarii_ were a voting division of fully qualified citizens whose property was less than 10,000 copper asses (= ?275). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If a person qualified to judge were asked to answer categorically as to whether or not that enterprise was a failure, he could truthfully answer both yes and no. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Nay, were your friend Lady Catherine to know me, I am persuaded she would find me in every respect ill qualified for the situation. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• But I must study a little at first, to get properly qualified. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I undertook this military business, though I did not conceive myself well qualified for it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Talk of not being qualified to be miscellaneous! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And thus ambassadors would be qualified to treat with foreign princes, or ministers of state, to whose tongues they were utter strangers. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I am not qualified to form one. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The independence of Judea was always a qualified and precarious thing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This general statement needs, however, to be qualified in two respects. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• My meaning was, that if one term of a relation is taken alone, the other is taken alone; if one term is qualified, the other is also qualified. Plato. The Republic.
• These two printers I found poorly qualified for their business. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I at present think, that whoever attempts this aright, and is well qualified, cannot fail of pleasing God and of meeting with success. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Giving the waiter to the personage before mentioned, as a block-head duly qualified for that consignment, Mr. Harthouse hurried into the gallery. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Suffice it, that you are not here qualified to discriminate. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Learning to be a milliner--at least TRYING to learn, she hastily qualified the statement. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• This impression must now be qualified. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• If they are really qualified for the task, will not their own hearts be the first to inform them of it? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• You are qualified for many good things. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He qualified these two negatives, as if he were not absolutely in either service, but was almost in both. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• This young lady was lying in wait (as she was qualified to do) for money, and you had no money. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• These modern phrases are very misleading unless they are carefully qualified. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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