meetness
Example Sentences
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“There is meetness in all things,” said the old lady, picking up her distaff.
From The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Emily Sarah Holt
Oh, what is home without a title to, and personal meetness for, that kingdom?
From The Christian Home by Samuel Philips
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
Did they sit in that dim sweetness Of attained love's after-calm, Marking not the world—its meetness, Marking Time not, nor his fleetness, Only happy, palm to palm?
From Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II by Austin Dobson
“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 Emily Sarah Holt
