beseem
Example Sentences
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Does it beseem a grown-up man like you to be as disobedient as a capricious child?
From The Slaves of the Padishah by M?r J?kai
At him to whom all are hurrying like ants to honey; but it does not beseem me to mention his name, for I have always hated boastfulness.
From The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
"The better then doth it beseem both the place and me," he replied.
From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Ernest Rhys
Who art thou, he said, thou fine fellòw, Of thee I am in great fear, For the clothes thou wearest upon thy back, Might beseem a lord to wear.
From The Book of Brave Old Ballads by Sir John Gilbert
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
