unmeet

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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

Sprung from Videha's monarch, she A sad and lovely devotee, Roaming the wood, unmeet for woe, Will toil and trouble undergo.

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

Then, lady, lay aside that haughty scorning— A robe unmeet to deck a mortal frame; Mild be thy light, and innocent as morning, And shine on high and humble still the same.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various

Biorn said: "A thing unmeet to do, to make the gods wroth with us."

From The Story Of Frithiof The Bold 1875 by Morris, William

The slightest curve on a face, May give an expression unmeet; Yet hers is so perfect and sweet, And shaped with such delicate grace, Its loveliness is complete.

From Stories in Verse by Abbey, Henry