But in spite of this lowest-grade greeting, a look of anxiety and fear, as at the sight of something too large and
unsuited to the place, came over her face when she saw Pierre enter.
She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, "Now I lay me down to sleep." But she had, as I have told you, the glimmerings of a sense of humor--which is simply another name for a sense of fitness of things; and it suddenly occurred to her that that simple little prayer, sacred to white-robed childhood lisping at motherly knees, was entirely
unsuited to this freckled witch of a girl who knew and cared nothing bout God's love, since she had never had it translated to her through the medium of human love.
For a time, however, although he was quite
unsuited for such a life, he became a friar.
Jennings, and beginning a journey to London under her protection, and as her guest, without wondering at her own situation, so short had their acquaintance with that lady been, so wholly
unsuited were they in age and disposition, and so many had been her objections against such a measure only a few days before!
She murmured, however, even in her reception of me, that she was out of her own chamber because its aspect was
unsuited to her infirmity; and with her stately look repelled the least suspicion of the truth.
There were arabesque figures with
unsuited limbs and appointments.
He felt that he was
unsuited to the vulgar bustle of the Bar, for he had discovered that it was not sufficient to put your name on a door to get briefs; and modern politics seemed to lack nobility.
You are giving yourself up to an enterprise, so shockingly
unsuited to a young girl like you, that I declare I contemplate it with horror.
She knew, too, that many of them were used now by the nomadic tribes of green men, but that among them all was no city that the red men did not shun, for without exception they stood amidst vast, waterless tracts,
unsuited for the continued sustenance of the dominant race of Martians.
Our conversations have, I think, made sufficiently clear to you the tenor of my life and purposes: a tenor
unsuited, I am aware, to the commoner order of minds.
Bazzard then pointed out that it was desirable that I should stand between him and a fate so perfectly
unsuited to his formation.
All was so still at that early hour, that the few pale people whom they met seemed as much
unsuited to the scene, as the sickly lamp which had been here and there left burning, was powerless and faint in the full glory of the sun.
unsuited - not easy to combine harmoniously