beseem

Example Sentences

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Why, does not beseem us here to inquire.

From Burl by Heady, Morrison

Of course, I have nothing to say against my daughter—she's my own uprearing, so it would ill beseem me to run her down.

From Frances Kane's Fortune by Meade, L. T.

But now I see that thou hast not with the naming any gift to give me such as would beseem me to accept, wherefore he of us who hath must give to the other.'

From The Red True Story Book by Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice)

Who art thou, he said, thou fine fellòw, Of thee I am in great fear, For the clothes thou wearest upon thy back, Might beseem a lord to wear.

From The Book of Brave Old Ballads by Gilbert, John, Sir

“These I will not wear,” bold Ramund he said,    “They beseem me not fair,” said Ramund the young.

From The Fountain of Maribo and other ballads by Wise, Thomas James