beseeming

Example Sentences

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This, I say, is not beseeming those that are in Christ Jesus.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

And made Verona's ancient citizens Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments To wield old partisans.

From Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta by Devereux, W. Cope

Time would come when M'tela would ceremoniously bring in his real present—assuredly magnificent as beseeming his power.

From The Leopard Woman by White, Stewart Edward

This is a better cue, far more beseeming princes than boyish tears, and all the outward misery of woe, a tattered garment and dishevelled locks.

From The Rise of Iskander by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Why is that lean doctor so slow,—cadaverous man with hollow jaw and sunken eye, ill beseeming the richness of his mother church!

From The Warden by Trollope, Anthony