beseeming

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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 Hakluyt, Richard

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 Foxe, John

Words full of worth, beseeming noble minds: The very balsamum to mend my woes.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 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 Boettiger, Louis A.

And made Verona's ancient citizens Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments To wield old partisans.

From Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta by Devereux, W. Cope