beseeming
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Arise! from your dreaming, In bright Orange bowers, To duties beseeming, Your fame and past powers.
From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Richard Jefferies
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 Hugh Binning
The throng had parted before this little procession, averting their eyes from the covered palankeen, as was beseeming.
From Tales of Destiny by Edmund Mitchell
"A bonny thing it is, and a beseeming, that I should be kept at the door half-an-hour, Captain Stanchells," said he, addressing the principal jailer, who now showed himself.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction by Arthur Mee
A whole cart-load of proofs was tendered as evidence; and the culprit, as was beseeming, was brought into court in a large tub.
From The Talking Beasts by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
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