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fit and passion
This passion brings on a fit which proves fatal.
He ignores Norma's threats to shoot herself, and in a fit of passion she shoots him as he leaves, leaving him dead in the pool.
Plutarch then anonymously relates that Marius, having gone into a fit of passion in which he announced a delusion that he was in command of the Mithridatic War, began to act as he would have on the field of battle ; finally, ever an ambitious man, Marius lamented, on his death bed, that he had not achieved all of which he was capable, despite his having acquired great wealth and having been chosen consul more times than any man before him.
In 1779, either after being whipped for idleness, or after being taunted by local youths, he smashed two knitting frames in what was described as a " fit of passion ".
:" H. W. being suddenly infected with the contagion of a fantastical fit, at the first sight of A, ... bewrayeth the secresy of his disease unto his familiar frend W. S., who not long before had tried the courtesy of the like passion, and was now newly recovered ... he determined to see whether it would sort to a happier end for this new actor, than it did for the old player.
Simon Monbaron notes that Batara Kala symbolizes the negative effects of having sexual relations in a fit of passion.
This type of passion is a negative effect on a person where they could feel they need to engage in their hobby to continue interpersonal relationships, or " fit in " the crowd.
Miss Vansittart was actually killed by Miss Chadwick, in an unpremedited fit of passion.
No matter how much I liked and respected Steve's dream, and passion and energy, I didn't seem to fit in.
During the trial, M ' Lachlan resolutely declared her innocence, and accused the women's employer, one James Fleming, age 87, of having committed the crime, perhaps in a fit of passion when M ' Pherson refused his amorous advances.

fit and Husband
If this arbitrary bloodbath ( motivated by the king's hyperbolic vanity and the general's hyperbolic pride ) is not enough of a deflation, when the Queen comes in to bewail her virginity, her lady simply says, " I'll fit you with a Husband in a Trice ;/ Here's Rigdum Funnidos, a proper Man ,/ If anyone can please a Queen, he can " ( I. v 61 – 4 ).

fit and decides
David's speech is overheard and reported to Saul, who summons David and on hearing David's views decides to fit him out with his ( Saul's ) own armour.
Hamlet decides not to “ take him in the purging of his soul ,/ When he is fit and seasoned for passage ” ( Shakespeare 90-91 ).
At some point, the individual receiver decides which of all the possible meanings represents the best possible " fit ".
After watching 38-year old Carlos Lopes in the 1984 Summer Olympics on TV, Homer decides to participate in the Springfield marathon to prove to Marge that he is fit.
While Laura's children, Rupert and Miranda, struggle to get used to their new life, Laura decides that she is going to fit in, and attempts to do her best, despite their run-down house and the eccentric cases.
The two come to blows, but quickly patch things up and Al decides to return to Kelly's Big Seven ( he also sheepishly puts the mouthpiece back on Kelly's horn saying, " It won't fit a clarinet ").
Pets: Groove decides he would like some company while out collecting and thinks a pet would fit the bill.
Deuce decides to take her to a baseball game, where her sporadic outbursts of profanity are likely to fit in with the crowd's yelling.
Cartman, in a fit of rage, begins to berate his friends, but stops after the group decides to place the shrimp in Ms. Choksondik's coffee.
Burnham advocates what he calls " Thesis Driven Investing ", whereby a VC firm decides upon one or more investment theses, then " they go and out and ' turn over rocks ' actively looking for deals that fit their investment thesis in a particular space.
She receives an insulting and mysterious email and, in a fit of rage, decides to find out who sent it.
" In a fit of frustration, Pierce decides to accept his fate and desert as a suppositious cadaver.

fit and kill
and in that brief interval, a redcoat officer came tearing down the road, whipping his horse fit to kill.
* Urquhart threatens to kill Mattie Storin by hitting her with a chair, but refrains in a fit of cowardice, and jumps to his own death after she leaves the roof garden.
* In The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King, an elderly Holmes and his protegee, Mary Russell, are pursued by Moriarty's middle-aged daughter, also an Oxford mathematics don, and a criminal kingpin in her own right, who threatens Holmes's remaining friends as she attempts to force Holmes to kill himself after signing a fake confession ' admitting ' that he framed her father to be a criminal out of jealousy aand that most of his cases were solved by others, only for Holmes to provoke her by noting that her father essentially committed suicide by confronting Holmes in such an isolated spot without any weapons, resulting in her accidentally shooting herself when struggling with Mary Russell in a fit of rage.
" It is about fourteen Years ago, that the said Members of the ( Gilead Lutheran ) Congregation, whilst the Number of them did increase, so that the Block Meeting House, where they used to serve the Lord, was to small for them, and the said Meeting house was not fit for any Worship, for fear it might brake down and kill them, so that the took a Notion of building a Church, and they begone it in the year 1775.
Dachshunds are bred specifically to fit inside tunnels underground to kill badgers.
For a long time, the local police supported the hypothesis that her mother Patsy Ramsey injured her child in a fit of rage after the girl had wet her bed on the same night, and then proceeded to kill her either in rage or to cover up the original injury.
However the UVF saw fit to continue the battle in 2001, using its satellite group the Red Hand Commando to kill two of the LVF's leading figures, Adrian Porter and Stephen Warnock.
This would later nearly kill Stephens when he argued with Judge Francis H. Cone, who stabbed him repeatedly in a fit of anger.
It is then revealed that Rachel's obsessive stalker and the person trying to kill her are not the same person, when an upset and drunken Nikki admits that in a drug-induced jealous fit she hired a hitman to kill Rachel, but that the letters from the stalker came before that.
In a fit of rage, Flavius hurled a glass vial at the sorcerers, releasing one of the pair's most terrible experiments: the Black Death, which would ultimately kill untold millions of Europeans.
Dumbledore considered it the " only hallow was fit to possess, not to boast of it or kill with it, but to tame it.
As governor, McDougall had opposed state legislation that would have outlawed dueling, remarking duelers were not fit to live and would eventually kill each other off.
Other specific stories may be conceived as not being canon from the start, so that the writers have creative freedom to kill major characters or perform radical changes as they see fit for the narrative, with such changes taking place only in that work and not in the main fictional universe.
Soviet training doctrine of the day emphasized the use of the thrown knife as a silent weapon, designed to kill or incapacitate an unsuspecting opponent at just beyond grappling distance ( five to six paces ); the ballistic knife appears to fit within that tactical doctrine.
" When the murderers return to Macbeth and report their failure to kill Fleance, he says, " Then comes my fit again: I had else been perfect, / Whole as the marble, founded as the rock, / As broad and general as the casing air: / But now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confined, bound in / To saucy doubts and fears.
Those in the industry suspected that Perfect Strangers was moved to this night not necessarily since it could have bolstered the lineup's performance, but because it was part of an ABC agenda to kill the series ( ABC's explanation in its move from Fridays was that it didn't fit the new TGIF demographic, ages 10 – 18 ).
As he prepares to kill him in a fit of rage, he suddenly remembers Julia, who had warned him not to let the Curse take hold of him.
In 2005, " 18 million people " watched her character kill Den in a fit of rage to mark the 20th anniversary of EastEnders, with Oberman " anchoring " the show's success that year and dominating drama as Chrissie, who " packed into a year what most soap characters do in three.
Wallace replied that wars tended to kill the most fit at the battlefront, and he demurred from " sexual selection ".
Parker said, " It was brutal ... Everybody already had their little groups and the year was almost over, so I wasn't going to fit into any of them, and I just wanted to destroy and kill, which was the inspiration for this show.
In a fit of grief-induced madness, Batman damages the Joker's gauntlets before he proceeds to kill his enemy on live television by snapping his neck on the roof of Arkham, and flees for the Batcave with Catwoman as Arkham explodes before collapsing in a trauma-induced catatonia.
In a fit of rage, Tifa tries to kill Sephiroth, but he blocks her attack and wounds her.
In a fit of rage, Bhulva and his goons, kill virendra and his goons.

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