beseeming

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Would ye know her? a woman, you shall eye her Strutting loftily, whiles she laughs a loud laugh Vast and vulgar, a Gaulish hound beseeming.

From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Ellis, Robinson

"My song is recompensed nobly," said Louise, shrinking back; "my nuts are sold to a good market; farther traffic, my lord, were neither befitting you nor beseeming me."

From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Scott, Walter, Sir

Wofull Fredericke Were a beseeming Epitaph for me, The other tastes of too much soveraigntie.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

"A bonny thing it is, and a beseeming, that I should be kept at the door half-an-hour, Captain Stanchells," said he, addressing the principal jailer, who now showed himself.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur

It was a quiet, sombre, clerical house, beseeming such a man as the warden, and thus he afterwards frequented it.

From The Warden by Trollope, Anthony