beseeming

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"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

Bluff commonsense, which proffers such homely wisdom with beseeming pathos would of course be morally indignant at the opponent who attempted to show that the apple did not make the apple tree.

From Selected Essays by Stenning, H. J.

I … did company these three in poor beseeming.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

Meekness is so beseeming every man, that it is even humanity itself.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

Time would come when M'tela would ceremoniously bring in his real present—assuredly magnificent as beseeming his power.

From The Leopard Woman by White, Stewart Edward