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I may have a conviction, Mr. Copperfield, that Mr. Micawber's manners peculiarly qualify him for the Banking business.

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 Meanings and Examples of QUALIFY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
qualify
 v.  make such as is required; give added or requisite qualities to; make legally capable
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  I may have a conviction, Mr. Copperfield, that Mr. Micawber's manners peculiarly qualify him for the Banking business.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET
2  Giving the waiter to the personage before mentioned, as a block-head duly qualified for that consignment, Mr. Harthouse hurried into the gallery.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
3  The doctor, after tasting the cool stuff, and expressing a qualified approval of it, hurried away: his boots creaking in a very important and wealthy manner as he went downstairs.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  Mr. Bolter put his hand to his neckerchief, as if he felt it inconveniently tight; and murmured an assent, qualified in tone but not in substance.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
5  Of what he had then written, nothing was to be retracted or qualified.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
6  But I must study a little at first, to get properly qualified.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 1 "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"
7  Will closed by wishing her happiness, a laconic formal statement which he qualified in no way.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
8  Therefore, though I am but ill qualified for a pioneer, in the application of these two semi-sciences to the whale, I will do my endeavor.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 79. The Prairie.
9  Look now at Stubb; a man who from his humorous, deliberate coolness and equanimity in the direst emergencies, was specially qualified to excel in pitchpoling.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 84. Pitchpoling.
10  Your commandant is a brave man, and well qualified to repel my assault.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
11  I am not qualified to form one.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
12  Her spirit was high, though not rough, and qualified by a heart sensitive and lively to excess in its affections.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
13  And thus ambassadors would be qualified to treat with foreign princes, or ministers of state, to whose tongues they were utter strangers.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER V.
14  'It ain't bad,' said Mr. Barkis, who generally qualified his speech, and rarely committed himself.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR
15  You are qualified for many good things.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36. ENTHUSIASM
Example Sentence: (46 in 4 pages)
16  He qualified as a doctor last year.
17  There is a shortage of well qualified teachers of foreign languages,especially of French and Japanese.
18  You have been a qualified teachers and even better friend.
19  Nottingham Forest qualified for the final by beating Tranmere on Tuesday.
20  It's time he stood aside and let a more qualified person do the job.
21  He qualified to join the club.
22  No member of the team was medically qualified and its methods were considered totally unscientific.
23  Even as a humanitarian mission it has been only a qualified success.
24  You need the advice of a qualified engineer.
25  We need some highly qualified intellectuals.
26  We must note that we still lack qualified specialists.
27  After he qualified as a doctor, his mother set him up in a practice of his own.
28  Nursing auxiliaries provide basic care, but are not qualified nurses.
29  These are subjects which readers are encouraged to refer to a qualified professional adviser.
30  Dawn is well qualified for her new role.