beseeming
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Meekness is so beseeming every man, that it is even humanity itself.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
And blush not, lad, if I guess that to you we all owe this meeting; 'twere a bravery well beseeming your blood.
From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
A whole cart-load of proofs was tendered as evidence; and the culprit, as was beseeming, was brought into court in a large tub.
From The Talking Beasts by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
"A bonny thing it is, and a beseeming, that I should be kept at the door half-an-hour, Captain Stanchells," said he, addressing the principal jailer, who now showed himself.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction by Arthur Mee
This is a better cue, far more beseeming princes than boyish tears, and all the outward misery of woe, a tattered garment and dishevelled locks.
From The Rise of Iskander by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
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