beseem

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Then the servant answered: "All this I know; but we have fared so ill in this house that mirth and laughter ill beseem us."

From Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages by Various

And Maud saith— “Prithee, Jack, take no airs, for they beseem thee but very ill.”

From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)

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

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