beseeming
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There was something of Effie's former humour in her practically answering the question by a gentle pinch, more beseeming the fingers of a fairy than of a ghost.
From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 by Sir Walter Scott
Willingly, noble lady, will we give you our escort,—the more so that this poor child will then have a friend with her beseeming her father's rank.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 by Various
For many of them breathe of a national spirit not beseeming a subject nation, and have been suppressed for many years.
From Armenian Legends and Festivals by Louis A. Boettiger
Fr. convenable, apt, fit, meet for, beseeming, seemlie, &c.
From Caxton's Book of Curtesye by Frederick James Furnivall
And made Verona's ancient citizens Cast by their grave, beseeming ornaments, To wield old partisans.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
