meetness

Example Sentences

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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 Greenaway, Kate

"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 Alma, Maude

“And what meetness is in setting the like of me in a chair that would well hold Charlemagne and his twelve Peers?” demanded the little girl, laughing.

From The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Holt, Emily Sarah

Surely we should desire a meetness for our inheritance as well as a title to it.

From The Theology of Holiness by Clark, Dougan

Oh! does it add to Chloë's sweetness To visit and compare my meetness?

From Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) by Gay, John