beseeming

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Bluff commonsense, which proffers such homely wisdom with beseeming pathos would of course be morally indignant at the opponent who attempted to show that the apple did not make the apple tree.

From Selected Essays by Stenning, H. J.

Wofull Fredericke Were a beseeming Epitaph for me, The other tastes of too much soveraigntie.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

"A bonny thing it is, and a beseeming, that I should be kept at the door half-an-hour, Captain Stanchells," said he, addressing the principal jailer, who now showed himself.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur

She stood near the door of the great drawing-room of the Knollys mansion, her figure beseeming well its framing of deep hangings and rich tapestries.

From The Mississippi Bubble by Hough, Emerson

Fr. convenable, apt, fit, meet for, beseeming, seemlie, &c.

From Caxton's Book of Curtesye by Furnivall, Frederick James