beseeming
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It was like a masquerade of rank and culture in the rags of misery, beseeming it as ill as an unsuitable part in a play.
From Footsteps of Fate by Louis Couperus
It was a quiet, sombre, clerical house, beseeming such a man as the warden, and thus he afterwards frequented it.
From The Warden by Anthony Trollope
Why is that lean doctor so slow,—cadaverous man with hollow jaw and sunken eye, ill beseeming the richness of his mother church!
From The Warden by Anthony Trollope
And made Verona's ancient citizens Cast by their grave, beseeming ornaments, To wield old partisans.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
For many of them breathe of a national spirit not beseeming a subject nation, and have been suppressed for many years.
From Armenian Legends and Festivals by Louis A. Boettiger
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