beseem
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There she stood With such a gentle pleasure in her looks As might beseem a river-nymph's soft eyes Gracing a bridal of the race whose flocks Were pastured on the borders of her stream.
From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Richard Henry Stoddard
I must remain in camp myself, for all the responsibility is on me, that is, first; and second, it does not beseem my office to go on an expedition against ruffians.
From The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
It would ill beseem me to say more about it than that.
From Marguerite by J. Lewis (James Lewis) May
Surely 'twould ill beseem me ought from the stores to take.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
Why, does not beseem us here to inquire.
From Burl by Morrison Heady
