beseeming

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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

The throng had parted before this little procession, averting their eyes from the covered palankeen, as was beseeming.

From Tales of Destiny by Mitchell, Edmund

It was a quiet, sombre, clerical house, beseeming such a man as the warden, and thus he afterwards frequented it.

From The Warden by Trollope, Anthony

"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 Scott, Walter, Sir

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 Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith