bemean

Example Sentences

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He would bemean himself sufficiently to overlook Frau's caddishness.

From Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life by Henry, Stuart Oliver

He was fighting for his life, and no eye could bemean that effort.

From The Strength of the Pines by Marshall, Edison

To dream that you have a wooden leg, denotes that you will bemean yourself in a false way to your friends.

From Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition by Miller, Gustavus Hindman

I hain't blind and I hain't deef, and I can't holp seein' the way she does, and a hearin' her bemean you about me all the time nearly.

From The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields by Hackley, Sarah Bell

“When I’ve done my dooty by her, as other people, whom I won’t bemean myself to name, oughter have done, Mister Jarker, I shall go, and not before,” said Mrs Sims.

From Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes by Fenn, George Manville