beseeming
Example Sentences
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"My song is recompensed nobly," said Louise, shrinking back; "my nuts are sold to a good market; farther traffic, my lord, were neither befitting you nor beseeming me."
From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Sir Walter Scott
"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
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 W. Cope Devereux
I … did company these three in poor beseeming.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
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
