beseem
Example Sentences
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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
At him to whom all are hurrying like ants to honey; but it does not beseem me to mention his name, for I have always hated boastfulness.
From The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Why, does not beseem us here to inquire.
From Burl by Morrison Heady
Entertain them as I know thou canst; but ask them neither their names, nor whither they journey: that would not beseem thee.
From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Bernhard Severin Ingemann
Then the servant answered: "All this I know; but we have fared so ill in this house that mirth and laughter ill beseem us."
From Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages by Various
