beseem
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
"Ay, love! but here fall more drops,—more and more;—these showers are longer than beseem the April, and pertain not to the June."
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
It would ill beseem me to say more about it than that.
From Marguerite by J. Lewis (James Lewis) May
He sent new milk to the ladies and little wheaten cakes with limpid golden honey, as might beseem fastidious ladies' lips.
From The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister by Wilhelmine von Hillern
There she stood With such a gentle pleasure in her looks As might beseem a river-nymph's soft eyes Gracing a bridal of the race whose flocks Were pastured on the borders of her stream.
From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Richard Henry Stoddard
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
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a word