unmeet

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Therefore, should I, My honoured guests, be forced to assume An air of stern severity unmeet This gay assembly, deem it but as naught; 'Tis firmness that is needed in this case.

From Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume III by M. Y. Halidom (pseud. Dryasdust)

Leave, lady, leave this lone retreat In forest wilds for thee unmeet, Where giants fierce and strong assume All shapes and wander in the gloom.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

For Sweden’s Nightingale so sweet, Their fellowship had been unmeet, The sawdust underneath whose feet       Hath been the Drama’s sepulchre.”

From Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by Ashton, John

Then gifts to the gods not unmeet not idly given, with promise from tight-closed lips did she address her vows.

From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

In its western side was a closet, where they put the birds unmeet for the sin-offering.

From Hebrew Literature by Wilson, Epiphanius