bemean

Example Sentences

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“I shouldn’t bemean myself to speak to her, if I was you, Joseph,” said his wife.

From A Little World by Fenn, George Manville

"I wouldn't bemean myself," countered Horace loftily, and didn't.

From Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life by Wren, Percival Christopher

She'll hab to walk and talk, and bofe bemean and brag!

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

We belittle ourselves in the sight of God and men, bemean ourselves in the presence of the moral law, and stay more or less our progress in the great educational work of life.

From Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. by Weaver, George Sumner

If I wanted to bemean myself, could n't I cast up somethin' you would n't like to be minded of?

From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph