beseem
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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 Robert Louis Stevenson
It would ill beseem the honor of this house to turn from its threshold a suppliant who asks of you nothing save what Christian love and God's command alike enjoin upon you as a duty.
From The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History by Paul Heyse
It would ill beseem me to say more about it than that.
From Marguerite by J. Lewis (James Lewis) May
Of course, I have nothing to say against my daughter—she's my own uprearing, so it would ill beseem me to run her down.
From Frances Kane's Fortune by L. T. Meade
But now I see that thou hast not with the naming any gift to give me such as would beseem me to accept, wherefore he of us who hath must give to the other.'
From The Red True Story Book by H. J. (Henry Justice) Ford
