beseeming
Example Sentences
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The throng had parted before this little procession, averting their eyes from the covered palankeen, as was beseeming.
From Tales of Destiny by Edmund Mitchell
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
Bluff commonsense, which proffers such homely wisdom with beseeming pathos would of course be morally indignant at the opponent who attempted to show that the apple did not make the apple tree.
From Selected Essays by H. J. Stenning
Would ye know her? a woman, you shall eye her Strutting loftily, whiles she laughs a loud laugh Vast and vulgar, a Gaulish hound beseeming.
From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Robinson Ellis
Meekness is so beseeming every man, that it is even humanity itself.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
