beseeming

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"My song is recompensed nobly," said Louise, shrinking back; "my nuts are sold to a good market; farther traffic, my lord, were neither befitting you nor beseeming me."

From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Scott, Walter, Sir

Arise! from your dreaming, In bright Orange bowers, To duties beseeming, Your fame and past powers.

From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Jefferies, Richard

I … did company these three in poor beseeming.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

There was something of Effie's former humour in her practically answering the question by a gentle pinch, more beseeming the fingers of a fairy than of a ghost.

From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 by Scott, Walter, Sir

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