beseem
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D. betamen to beseem, G. ziemen, Goth. gatiman, and E. tame.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
Would such an experiment beseem any other place so well as the madhouse?
From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by William Benjamin Smith
"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
Of course, I have nothing to say against my daughter—she's my own uprearing, so it would ill beseem me to run her down.
From Frances Kane's Fortune by L. T. Meade
"My Vladek, I cannot; the more thou art thought a Don Juan, the less does it beseem me, an actress, to take thee to a lone woman who attracts the attention that Hela 22 does."
From Hania by Henryk Sienkiewicz
