beseeming

Example Sentences

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The throng had parted before this little procession, averting their eyes from the covered palankeen, as was beseeming.

From Tales of Destiny by Mitchell, Edmund

You see how much those saints in the Old Testament were in this and certainly they had more excellent and beseeming thoughts of God than we.

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

Meekness is so beseeming every man, that it is even humanity itself.

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

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

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