bemean
Example Sentences
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“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
“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
"I wouldn't bemean myself," countered Horace loftily, and didn't.
From Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life by Wren, Percival Christopher
To dream that you have a wooden leg, denotes that you will bemean yourself in a false way to your friends.
From Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition by Miller, Gustavus Hindman
Surely we need no further bemean and befoul ourselves!
From Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
