beseeming
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Fr. convenable, apt, fit, meet for, beseeming, seemlie, &c.
From Caxton's Book of Curtesye by Frederick James Furnivall
Reiterating the same speech, well beseeming a souldier, resolute in Iesus Christ, as I can testifie he was.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. by Richard Hakluyt
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
Upon the scaffold, he behaved with the firmness which became a noble spirit, and the patience beseeming one who was reconciled to heaven.
From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe
You, Roman soldiers, fellow-mates in arms, The blindfold mistress of uncertain chance Hath turn'd these traitorous climbers from the top, And seated Sylla in the chiefest place— The place beseeming Sylla and his mind.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various
