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

Words full of worth, beseeming noble minds: The very balsamum to mend my woes.

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

You see how much those saints in the Old Testament were in this and certainly they had more excellent and beseeming thoughts of God than we.

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

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)

Reiterating the same speech, well beseeming a souldier, resolute in Iesus Christ, as I can testifie he was.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. by Hakluyt, Richard