beseem
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It would ill beseem the honor of this house to turn from its threshold a suppliant who asks of you nothing save what Christian love and God's command alike enjoin upon you as a duty.
From The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History by Paul Heyse
"Ay, love! but here fall more drops,—more and more;—these showers are longer than beseem the April, and pertain not to the June."
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
D. betamen to beseem, G. ziemen, Goth. gatiman, and E. tame.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
Would such an experiment beseem any other place so well as the madhouse?
From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by William Benjamin Smith
But, after this, it would not beseem me to do else than record the fact that the new suburban district springing up beside the road, half a mile past Welling, is called “Crook Log.”
From The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Charles G. Harper
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