beseem
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Then the servant answered: "All this I know; but we have fared so ill in this house that mirth and laughter ill beseem us."
From Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages by Various
"Woe is me, lamentation and mourning beseem me better than marriage; I can no longer go to court as befits a queen; if once I was beautiful, my beauty has vanished long ago."
From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann
Would such an experiment beseem any other place so well as the madhouse?
From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by Smith, William Benjamin
Does it beseem a grown-up man like you to be as disobedient as a capricious child?
From The Slaves of the Padishah by J?kai, M?r
For, by what cantrip it wad ill beseem a man to judge, she was hingin’ frae a single nail an’ by a single wursted thread for darnin’ hose.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis