"If the shoe ___, wear it"

Usage examples of fits.

The goggles are too closely spaced for human eyes, and perfectly round, but the strap just about fits my head.

The boy had fits, and when the paroxysm had passed, he went into a rigid sleep.

The number of subscribers dropped, debts piled up, and his epileptic fits became more serious.

And when a character does not die, when he or she is neither consumptive, nor epileptic, nor hysterical, nor paranoid, nor schizophrenic, nor alcoholic, nor a sick prostitute, nor a sexual pervert, there is still evidence of morbid behaviour: sudden pallor, vivid blushes, burning eyes, trembling and fits, swoons.

Neurologists admit that epilepsy may sometimes be linked to a schizoid process - this might have been the case with Van Gogh - but they define it as a chronic disorder, a continual tendency to fits resulting from an excessive discharge of cerebral neurones, whatever clinical or paraclinical symptoms happen to be associated with it.

Besides this morbid nervousness, there were fits which are difficult to diagnose.

In 1853 the fits were repeated and from then on appeared at the end of every month.

I have, what these fits are which are being repeated all the time and deaden my memory and my faculties a little more every time and are making me afraid of going mad.

Serial fits took place just at the same time as the most violent creative effort.

Finally, three days later, another, though weaker, but these three fits in a row have disturbed me horribly.

Afterwards, two more fits, one on the 4 January and the other on the 11 January.

The more this goes on, the more the organism is weakened for bearing fits and so the fits are harder to bear and their effect is stronger.

He said he did several times, but sometimes his fears were not justified, and mainly the fits came on him without warning.

In the fits cited above, Dostoyevsky noted with precision the disturbing symptoms characteristic of the obsessive cloudy state after the fit.

The first, which ended with the appearance, in convict prison, of generalised epileptic fits, was that of creative interrogation faced with the fact of illness.