beseeming

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Would ye know her? a woman, you shall eye her Strutting loftily, whiles she laughs a loud laugh Vast and vulgar, a Gaulish hound beseeming.

From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Ellis, Robinson

Wofull Fredericke Were a beseeming Epitaph for me, The other tastes of too much soveraigntie.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

Arise! from your dreaming, In bright Orange bowers, To duties beseeming, Your fame and past powers.

From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Jefferies, Richard

It was a quiet, sombre, clerical house, beseeming such a man as the warden, and thus he afterwards frequented it.

From The Warden by Trollope, Anthony

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

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