beseeming
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"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 Arthur Mee
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
A voyce vndoubtedly full well beseeming the sonnes of God, arguing the notable comfort of his soule amidst the very pangs of death.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Richard Hakluyt
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 Sir Walter Scott
Fr. convenable, apt, fit, meet for, beseeming, seemlie, &c.
From Caxton's Book of Curtesye by Frederick James Furnivall
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