It was only fitting that we seek out whatever joy our union might bring.

The first car to be named Aston Martin was created by Martin by fitting a four-cylinder Coventry-Simplex engine to the chassis of a 1908 Isotta-Fraschini.

This would have been a burial fitting a king who was famous for his wealth in Old Norse sources.

: Upon a certain Ascension Day King Arthur had come from Caerleon, and had held a very magnificent court at Camelot as was fitting on such a day.

* When his own honesty was challenged by his contemporaries, Gibbon appealed to the chapter heading — not the text — in Eusebius ' Praeparatio evangelica ( xii, 31 ), which says how fictions ( pseudos )— which Gibbon rendered ' falsehoods '— may be a " medicine ", which may be " lawful and fitting " to use.

A bronze plaque inscribed with Drake's claim to the new lands – Drake's Plate of Brass – fitting the description in his account, was discovered in Marin County, California but was later declared a hoax.

After President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in, his family and friends discussed how to construct a library that would serve as a fitting memorial.

The difficulty of the manufacture of a large cylinder with a tightly fitting piston was solved by John Wilkinson who had developed precision boring techniques for cannon making at Bersham, near Wrexham, North Wales.

When catering, these topnotch foodservice establishments not only provided what was on the menu, but upon customers ’ requests, also those not on the menu, properly fitting the occasions.

When subjected to the same cost-analysis as the 90-day report, Mars Semi-Direct was predicted to cost 55 billion dollars over 10 years, capable of fitting into the existing NASA budget.

Another seemingly fitting explanation is that the term was derived from the UK English slang " the dog's bollocks " or " the mutt's nuts ", meaning " the absolute best ".

This was a fitting choice, as Valéry shared Goethe's fascination with science ( specifically, biology and optics ).

The P51 Mustang was the subject of a 30 minute episode entitled " The Cadillac of the Skies " in reference to its exceptional performance and how it started off as a British purchase as a low level attack fighter into the powerful long range bomber escort that it would eventually become in the Air War in Europe through a combination of being fitted with the Rolls Royce Merlin and the fitting drop tanks that allowed to escort the bombers of the United States 8th Air Force all the way into occupied Europe and back.

The original muzzle-loading rifle, with a closely fitting ball to take the rifling grooves, was loaded with difficulty, particularly when foul, and for this reason was not generally used for military purposes.

Solomon then lifted the ant above the valley, but the ant said it was not fitting that Solomon should sit on a throne while the ant remained on the ground.

Then, in 1679, based on these concepts, an associate of Boyle's named Denis Papin built a steam digester, which was a closed vessel with a tightly fitting lid that confined steam until a high pressure was generated.

The author states that it is fitting, since he was introduced to fantasy through the first Legend of Zelda game.

Plutarch provides the most evocative version of this story: But when Egypt revolted with Athenian aid ... and Cimon's mastery of the sea forced the King to resist the efforts of the Hellenes and to hinder their hostile growth ... messages came down to Themistocles saying that the King commanded him to make good his promises by applying himself to the Hellenic problem ; then, neither embittered by anything like anger against his former fellow-citizens, nor lifted up by the great honor and power he was to have in the war, but possibly thinking his task not even approachable, both because Hellas had other great generals at the time, and especially because Cimon was so marvelously successful in his campaigns ; yet most of all out of regard for the reputation of his own achievements and the trophies of those early days ; having decided that his best course was to put a fitting end to his life, he made a sacrifice to the gods, then called his friends together, gave them a farewell clasp of his hand, and, as the current story goes, drank bull's blood, or as some say, took a quick poison, and so died in Magnesia, in the sixty-fifth year of his life ... They say that the King, on learning the cause and the manner of his death, admired the man yet more, and continued to treat his friends and kindred with kindness.

This was a fitting place to worship a swift god of trade and travel, since it was a major center of commerce as well as a racetrack.

Hatless, in an overcoat of rough blue wool, I was given a proud farewell by my mother and father, and I set out into the strangely still streets of Brooklyn.

Paul comments that saying farewell was " very hard, but it is something a soldier learns to deal with.

This argument considers the farewell discourse not to be authentic, and postulates that it was constructed after the death of Jesus.

But the failure of Park Avenue in 1946, a " smart " show about divorce, co-written with composer Arthur Schwartz, was his farewell to Broadway.

When he retired in January 1901, Tenniel was honoured with a farewell banquet ( 12 June ), at which AJ Balfour, then Leader of the House of Commons, presided.

A few days later, the ministers of the church came to visit him, and he bade his final farewell, which was recorded in Discours d ' adieu aux ministres.

The story is deliberately written as an elegiac farewell to the old conception of Mars, complete with canals and an ancient, dying Martian race, as " The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth " ( 1965 ) was his farewell to the Venus of earlier science fiction.

This call, understandably, was greeted by a long and loud chorus of boos by the Diamondbacks fans who packed Chase Field to bid farewell to Luis Gonzalez.

In March 2001, Saeed was filmed in a farewell video that was later aired on al-Jazeera.

In December 2010 the Pogues ( with support from Crowns ) played what was billed as a farewell UK Christmas tour.

The farewell dinner to Jardine was held on January 22, 1839 with several members of the Foreign settlement in Canton mostly traders.

She sang a coded song to Mary, a trusted fellow slave, that was a farewell.

His first album after his 1981 farewell concerts was the bleak, atmospheric and experimental Dance ( 1981 ).

Numan supported the album with a concert tour in America in late 1982 ( where he was living as a tax exile ), which were his first series of live shows since his farewell at Wembley.

The farewell was very tearful and, as shown by her regular letters, she missed them dreadfully.

Joseph kissed his dead father, and the custom was retained in our civilization ," as the farewell kiss on dead relatives, although certain sects prohibit this today.

The morning that his resignation was to take effect, President and Mrs. Nixon and their family said farewell to the White House staff in the East Room.

Later, in July, an official announcement was made that the band would break up after a farewell tour of the United States and after playing two concerts in London.

The band played their farewell show on 5 July 1983 at the Hammersmith Palais ; dedicated fans had been warned by the band's crew not to miss the show without telling them it was the last.

While Follies was a hit, Yolanda bombed at the box office and Astaire, ever insecure and believing his career was beginning to falter, surprised his audiences by announcing his retirement during the production of Blue Skies ( 1946 ), nominating " Puttin ' on the Ritz " as his farewell dance.

The best antidote for the bitterness and disappointment that poisoned him was hard work.

He didn't think it was possible for this couple to be pretending.

It must have hurt her even to walk, for the sole was completely off her left foot and Morgan saw that it was bruised and bleeding.

It was the only thing in his life for which he felt guilt.

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.

He was naked except for a clout.

Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.

Well, the grass was there, though in some places the ground was too steep for a cow to get to it.

But it was not easy for him and he often slipped.

Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

I was constantly searching for clues around the neighborhood of the hall.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

Was I sure, he asked, that I knew what I was applying for??

At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.

That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.

It was payday for Highlands, and he was packing a lot of money back into the oil fields.

I was just doing my job, just following orders, and for that he's going to kill me.

Somehow more terrible than the certainty that he was about to die was the knowledge that Lord would probably not suffer for it: the murder would go unpunished.

He was readying a batch of sourdough biscuits for the Dutch oven.