beseeming

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Yet, still, had England said, “You’re free, Choose whom you will,” dear sir, to thee, For dress beseeming modest worth, I would have led our pilgrim forth.

From Cottage Poems by Brontë, Patrick

It was like a masquerade of rank and culture in the rags of misery, beseeming it as ill as an unsuitable part in a play.

From Footsteps of Fate by Couperus, Louis

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

And made Verona's ancient citizens Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments To wield old partisans.

From Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta by Devereux, W. Cope

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