beseem
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Surely 'twould ill beseem me ought from the stores to take.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
"Woe is me, lamentation and mourning beseem me better than marriage; I can no longer go to court as befits a queen; if once I was beautiful, my beauty has vanished long ago."
From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Hermann Schoenfeld
Then the servant answered: "All this I know; but we have fared so ill in this house that mirth and laughter ill beseem us."
From Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages by Various
And Maud saith— “Prithee, Jack, take no airs, for they beseem thee but very ill.”
From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
Tell me what,-- Thou speak'st of matters which beseem thee not.
From The Banished A Swabian Historical Tale. In Three Volumes. by Wilhelm Hauff
