beseem

Example Sentences

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Would such an experiment beseem any other place so well as the madhouse?

From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by Smith, William Benjamin

Tell me what,-- Thou speak'st of matters which beseem thee not.

From The Banished A Swabian Historical Tale. In Three Volumes. by Hauff, Wilhelm

"Ay, love! but here fall more drops,—more and more;—these showers are longer than beseem the April, and pertain not to the June."

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

Of course, I have nothing to say against my daughter—she's my own uprearing, so it would ill beseem me to run her down.

From Frances Kane's Fortune by Meade, L. T.

Those robes your character beseem; When they are worn we'll make you new.

From The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches by Wilson, Epiphanius