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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.