fitting-up

• “He knew, too, that she was happily employed; the fitting-up and furnishing of the house was a job after her own heart.”

  Australia Felix

• “There is not in the building, rigging, or fitting-up of a Chinese junk one single thing which is similar to what we see on board a European vessel.”

  Under the Dragon Flag My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War

• “The first thing to be done was to complete the fitting-up of the car, or cabin.”

  Tom Swift and His Airship

• “The Chinese pagoda is a splendid building, according to the celestial taste in such matters, and is really well worth seeing: the carving and general fitting-up of the interior are very beautiful, and substantial enough to make one believe they will last a thousand years, as the”

  Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.

• “The provision of this very high wash-hand-stand illustrates the minute care with which everything had been foreseen in the construction and fitting-up of the yacht.”

  An Adventure with a Genius

• “But in turning her talent to the fitting-up of her house the American woman is apt to be thrifty, ingenious and economical; and since she has learned what decorative art really is, she works miracles of cleverness and beauty.”

  Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878

• “While the _Mary Ellen_ was fitting-up for sea, I was often taken on board.”

  Recollections of Old Liverpool

• “The fitting-up of the room, or rather saloon, was perfectly simple.”

  International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850

• “England without taking the necessary time to acquire everything of the best for the fitting-up of a stable, and after a time she established herself temporarily in a sumptuous apartment in the Place de l'Etoile, furnished with a taste worthy of the most thorough Parisian.”

  The French Immortals Series — Complete

• “In this event the included work must be good, and the fitting-up as plain as possible.”

  Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.

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