meetness
Example Sentences
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"I have thought so sometimes lately, but I wished so much to be one that, in seeking to fulfil the wish, I may have overlooked the meetness."
From Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma by Maude Alma
The Daffodil most dainty is, To match with these in meetness; The Columbine compared to this, All much alike for sweetness.
From Language of Flowers by Kate Greenaway
These the deep, tender records, Sacred in all their meetness, That, wakening purest fancies, Soften us with their sweetness; As, gathered where flickering fagots burn, We welcome the holy season's return.
From Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse by Robert Haven Schauffler
The rose is the fairest of earthly flowers— It is all of beauty and of sweetness— So my dear maid, in the heavenly bowers, Excels in beauty and in meetness.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 389, September 12, 1829 by Various
Elizabeth Jones has since died, and has left ample testimony to her faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and her meetness to appear in the presence of God, through the merit of her Saviour.
From The Pilot's Daughter an account of Elizabeth Cullingham by Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) Cunningham
