"Suited" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... armful of wood. The fire, to serve better the purposes of cooking, had been allowed to burn down to coals, and the smouldering embers now gave so little light that the face and figure of his guest were losing themselves in obscurity. As this state of affairs hardly suited him, he piled on the dry mesquite brush and fanned it with his hat into leaping flames. When Janet was lit up to his satisfaction, he put down the hat and ...
— The Wrong Woman • Charles D. Stewart
... unconquerable fidelity of the common people. Nor, on the other hand, is there anything in his appearance to indicate the presence of the broad and comprehensive energy which, in the mind of the thoughtful, can take the place of such an enthusiasm. Still, he is in many respects peculiarly suited to take the head of the rebellion. Elected at a time when State distinctions were lost sight of in the warmth of the first formation of the confederacy, he soon lost his sectional character, and represents, as no one now elected could, the people alike of Virginia and those along the Gulf. ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various
... ringlets brown, Flow thy silken ears adown Either side demurely Of thy silver-suited breast, Shining out from all the ...
— The Dog's Book of Verse • Various
... name suited the little girl. She had grown so tall that she could look over the St. Bernard's back, and so agile that she had walked out six pairs of moccasins in as many months. And when the new shoes arrived and the sleeves were finished, she grew so proud that she wanted to wear her gobelin ...
— The Biography of a Prairie Girl • Eleanor Gates
... leather girdle for the sword or bugle, worn pendant across the shoulder and breast. Bayes, vii, 3, bathes. Beades, i, 30, prayers. Beadmen, x, 36, men devoted to prayer for the soul of the founder of the charitable institution in which they lived. Become, x, 16, gone to; became, x, 66, suited. Bed, ix, 41, bid. Bedight, xii, 21, adorned. Beguyld, xi, 25, foiled. Beheast, iv, 18, command. Behight, x, 64, name, declare; x, 50, intrusted, delivered; xi, 38, behot, promised. Beseemed, viii, 32, suited, was becoming. Beseene, ...
— Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I • Edmund Spenser
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