bemean

Example Sentences

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“I shouldn’t bemean myself to speak to her, if I was you, Joseph,” said his wife.

From A Little World by Fenn, George Manville

“Which you’d best fetch this gentleman a light, Master Antony,” said cook; “for I ain’t going to bemean myself.”

From The Story of Antony Grace by Fenn, George Manville

"Nothing of the kind," cried Lavinia, furious that her mother should think she would so bemean herself.

From Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' by Pearce, Charles Edward

I hain't blind and I hain't deef, and I can't holp seein' the way she does, and a hearin' her bemean you about me all the time nearly.

From The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields by Hackley, Sarah Bell

Why," said she, "I would not bemean myself to open the door to such.

From The Original Fables of La Fontaine Rendered into English Prose by Fredk. Colin Tilney by Tilney, Frederick Colin