beseeming

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I … did company these three in poor beseeming.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

Neither can they make good or evil, beseeming or not beseeming, what they list, but their commandments are to be examined by a higher rule.

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George

"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 Mee, Arthur

Yet, still, had England said, “You’re free, Choose whom you will,” dear sir, to thee, For dress beseeming modest worth, I would have led our pilgrim forth.

From Cottage Poems by Brontë, Patrick

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 Binning, Hugh