beseeming
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Wherefore, we conclude, that Christ did voluntarily, and of set purpose, choose sitting as the fittest and best beseeming gesture for that holy banquet.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
This is a better cue, far more beseeming princes than boyish tears, and all the outward misery of woe, a tattered garment and dishevelled locks.
From The Rise of Iskander by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
And blush not, lad, if I guess that to you we all owe this meeting; 'twere a bravery well beseeming your blood.
From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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 Emerson Hough
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 H. J. Stenning
