beseeming

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Upon the scaffold, he behaved with the firmness which became a noble spirit, and the patience beseeming one who was reconciled to heaven.

From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John

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 Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

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 Hough, Emerson

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 Scott, Walter, Sir

Meekness is so beseeming every man, that it is even humanity itself.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh