beseeming

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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

The throng had parted before this little procession, averting their eyes from the covered palankeen, as was beseeming.

From Tales of Destiny by Mitchell, Edmund

Why is that lean doctor so slow,—cadaverous man with hollow jaw and sunken eye, ill beseeming the richness of his mother church!

From The Warden by Trollope, Anthony

A hope beseeming Marius; but, I fear, Too strange to have a short and good event.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various

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