Suitable

Examples

• There could be but one suitable reply to your assertion, Mr. Clayton, she said icily, and I regret that I am not a man, that I might make it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Suitable directions will at once be given for all trains and surplus artillery to conform to this movement. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• And as to the question of clever or not clever, I doubt very much whether a clever husband would be suitable to me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• When salt is sifted it is ready for packing in bags or packages suitable for shipment to the consumer. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Plaster of Paris was found to be the most suitable material for this purpose, and the light produced was soft, mellow, slightly rose-coloured, and quite agreeable to the eye. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I said at the time that I always would mention it on every suitable occasion, without regard to personal sensitiveness. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Suppose we call it the contentious or ambitious--would the term be suitable? Plato. The Republic.
• This difference in the imagination has a suitable effect on the passions; and this effect is augmented by another circumstance. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The absence of all valves renders it very suitable for draining marshes, and for other similar purposes, as the muddy water and suspended matters will not obstruct its action. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• These should be like the harmonies, simple and suitable to the occasion. Plato. The Republic.
• But it is impossible to express the satisfaction I received in my own mind, after such a manner as to make it a suitable entertainment to the reader. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Our first engine compelled the inventing and making of a suitable engine indicator to indicate it--the Tabor. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• When I see a great lady very suitable for my business, I say “You'll do, my dear! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• This consists of a large cast-iron cylinder fitted with a plunger, which is made to work water-tight therein by means of suitable packing. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• When nitrogen gas is in contact with heated calcium carbide, a reaction takes place which results in the formation of calcium nitride, a compound suitable for enriching the soil. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Second--To devise an electric lamp that would give about the same amount of light as a gas jet, which custom had proven to be a suitable and useful unit. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He wanted to marry me only because he thought I should make a suitable missionary's wife, which she would not have done. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Molten glass being rolled into a form suitable for window panes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He sent ambassadors to Pekin, and a suitable princess was selected, a girl of seventeen. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• That I was inexperienced in the art of adapting my mind to minds very differently situated, and addressing them from suitable points of view. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• There an't nobody here as knows how to read it; and if there wos, it wouldn't be suitable to me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The cautery consists of a loop of platinum wire carried by a suitable non-conducting handle, with means for constricting the white hot loop of wire about the tumor or object to be excised. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• This is the inventor’s own statement, but it gives a very meagre notion of the many months’ experimenting in his workshop while he hunted for a suitable filament for his electric light. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• For this purpose an original record by suitable mechanism is made to take the place of the speaker or singer, and so multiplies and reproduces the original record. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• His old friend, Lord Stanhope, urged that suitable offers be made him. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The heat separates the ammonia gas from the water, and the gas is then used to operate a suitable engine. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This amiable baronet, really a suitable husband for Celia, exaggerated the necessity of making himself agreeable to the elder sister. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But can you tell me of any other suitable study? Plato. The Republic.
• Which I accordingly venture, with all suitable apologies, to do. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Crops must be selected or developed that will fit the environment, and there is ample field for investigation in the improvement and development of crops suitable to dry lands. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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